Addicts

Methadone clinics are used to help addicts avoid their habits. The way these clinics work is they require the addict to come in everyday for a dose of methadone, a drug similar to heroin, but it is less dangerous. The addicts are given a dose of methadone everyday and are required to have some sort of group therapy. Some are eventually taken off the methadone, while others need a steady dose everyday for the rest of their lives. The question is, should addicts be allowed to stay on the methadone

Whenever someone thinks of what an addict should be, many different images come to mind. It could be the homeless man on the street, the raging adolescent who is struggling, the majority of the prison population. My grandfather himself dealt with his own addiction. He struggled for many years with alcoholism as well as an opiate addiction. Many of my family members cast him out and told him that if he really wanted to stop he would. His addiction went on for years before he was admitted to rehab

of dopamine, and it takes more and more to reach the desirable effect. To control addiction, one must change their environment, figure themselves out, and change their way of thinking. Usually, when an addict is seeking sobriety, one needs to change their environment. There are meetings an addict may attend to help them control their

the case, these offenders are addicts and addicts need to be screened treated for their disease. Screening the addict for a specific treatment program is an important step. Bellessa and Hanser (2008) said, it is important in community supervision to be able to successfully and accurately screen for drug abuse (Pg. 218). Treatment designers have developed a tool to make screening the addicts a little bit easier. There is a sequence of questions that the offender/addict needs to answer truthfully to

is very important because it helps the addict become clean. Rehab can be forced by the law or it can just be the will to go. Addicts should go to rehab because they help the addict threw detox. Detox is a long and painful process because when the addicts body has to have that type of drug. As their body is is cleansing itself it will sweat, get the chills and become sick because it is used to the type of substance in the body. Rehab does work, but the addict has to have support. Support from family

You likely experience varying emotions dealing with the addict. One moment you fear the addict may die of an overdose; a moment later, you are angry because the addict is wasting money on drugs, sleeping in late, or refusing to work. It’s frustrating and painful to watch helplessly as someone you care about falls prey to the negative and possibly catastrophic consequences of addiction. While the addict deals with the consequences of addiction, your struggles are just as important and deserve attention

views contradict Frankfurt’s many times. They have opposing views on many phenomena and more specifically, the unwilling addict. Plato’s describes the unwilling addict as a person with a “loss of control of irresistibility” (page 285, Alien Landscapes?: Interpreting Disordered Minds). Plato says human nature has different parts and his belief of the unwilling addict is that the addict has different parts wanting different desires. “Is it possible for the same thing at the same time in the same respect

has suffered through addiction, I believe it is a disease that shows no mercy to its victim, and that the only path to recovery is to separate the addict from the substance or activity causing the addiction. As stated in the writings of Alcoholics Anonymous, without some form of recovery its only end is jails, institutions and death. Sadly the addict in my life lost all sense that his disease caused harm to those around him. The disease reached far into his personal and social life and affected many

addictions. Their addiction may be to drugs or alcohol. When an addict wants to get help they will go through the, “Model of Change.” The model of change has six stages, the pre-contemplation stage, contemplation stage, preparation stage, action stage, maintenance stage and the relapse stage. The two stages I will be talking about in this paper are the pre-contemplation stage and the contemplation stage. The pre-contemplation stage is when an addict does not see their addiction as a problem. They deny having

Abusers should be Treated and not Incarcerated Compassion, counselling, empowerment, and empathy, and not incarceration, this must be the slogan for drug addicts. Imprisonment is not going to address the menacing issue of substance abuse and addiction. As a matter of fact, imprisonment is only going to increase the vulnerabilities of the addicts and is going to disrupt their psychological build up through the undue process of stigmatization. But adhering to the orthodox criminal justice system and