Essays on: Addiction

Title: The Rise in Opioid and Electronic Cigarette Abuse
Last modified: 11th May 2021
Introduction: Substance abuse is an epidemic that is on the rise throughout the world. It is a tragic trend, a battle against one's own brain chemistry, and it does not appear to be ending anytime soon....

Title: Misuse and Addiction of Opioids
Last modified: 23rd Apr 2021
Introduction: Basically, too much of opioid use is harmful. Unfortunately, opioid abuse has affected the healthcare system. Over the years, the healthcare sector has conducted multiple studies to develop new and better treatment methods and drugs for various health problems....

Title: Mindfulness for Alcohol Addiction
Last modified: 23rd Apr 2021
Introduction: Mindfulness delivers an understanding of the third stage of addiction, viewing the addiction loop process to become more effective than other treatment forms ...

Title: Essay on Opioid Epidemic
Last modified: 22nd Apr 2021
Introduction: Every day, more than 115 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids and from 1999 to 2016, more than 200,000 people died in the United States from overdoses related to prescription opioids....

Title: Literature Review On Nicotine Addiction
Last modified: 12th Apr 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to identify the potential causes of nicotine addiction, as well as an exploration of the current literature related to nicotine cessation methods....

Title: Drug Addiction In Pakistan Youths
Last modified: 16th Dec 2020
Introduction: The disorder of addiction involves the progression of sensitive drug use to the development of drug-seeking behavior, the openness to decline and the decreased, slowed ability to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli....

Title: Negative Effects of Computer Addiction
Last modified: 14th Dec 2020
Introduction: Computer addiction has negative effects on the student’s life: affects the physical health, changes academic performance and lessens social interactions....

Title: Living and Caring for a Loved One Suffering from Addiction
Last modified: 3rd Dec 2020
Introduction: There has been lots of research done to study addiction. There are many faces of addiction, there is alcohol dependency, drug addiction, and even a combination of both....

Title: Biopsychosocial and Risk Assessment of Addiction Patient: Development of Treatment Plan
Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Introduction:  Addiction in itself can be complex and there are a lot of different types of addictive disorders, such as alcohol use disorder, opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder and many more...

Title: Addiction: The Affects of Incarceration Without Treatment
Last modified: 25th Aug 2020
Introduction: In order to decrease the issues regarding the current drug epidemic, there must be changes made to the mandated incarceration system required for the punishment of addicts who commit crimes related to substance abuse....

Title: Communication Skills in Mental Health and Addiction
Last modified: 7th May 2020
Introduction: Task 1 1.1 The communication process is the transfer of information from the sender to the receiver by getting over the barriers that affect its transfer. In simple terms, communication is the exchan...

Title: Tobacco addiction case study
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
Introduction: Nick is a thirty-year-old Caucasian male who recently enrolled in your patient panel. He comes in today because he desires to “kick the habit” of tobacco use. He had tried to quit before and succ...

Title: Interventions for Drug Addiction: Case Study
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
Introduction: 18893 Many attempts have been made to arrive at a universally acceptable definition of addiction and what causes addictive behaviour but the matter still remains unresolved. People often define addic...

Title: Comorbid Addiction Patient Case Study
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Case Study: A Puerto Rican woman with Comorbid Addiction Background  The patient is a 53-year old Puerto Rican woman who presented to the clinic with issues arising from ...

Title: Opioid Addiction and Abuse
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Opioids are a class of drugs that are used in the management of pain, and they represent a breakthrough in palliative medicine. Some major developments in the administration of these drugs have enable...

Title: Stigma Surrounding Medication-Assisted Treatment in Opiate Addiction
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: For the past twenty-five years, I have always had some type of an addiction. For the last thirteen years, I struggled with opiate addiction, which led to my experience with medication-assisted tr...

Title: Treatment Options for Addiction
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: An Invitation to Addiction Treatment Addiction is a complex condition that affects your all around health. It is a voluntary choice to take drugs or drink alcohol gradually but it can so...

Title: Heroin Addiction in Adolescents
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction:  “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson (Robinson, 2018). Introduction  Heroin use ha...

Title: Impact of Heroin Addiction on the Family
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: About Heroin   Heroin is an opioid drug and is a major downer because when the drug enters the brain rapidly it results in both long-term and short-term side effects such as, drowsi...

Title: Awareness Of Anti Smoking Campaigns Health Essay
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Smoking, a practice where in substance, more usually tobacco or cannabis is burned, causes the release of active substances such as Nicotine. Smoking is primarily practiced as an administration route ...

Title: The effects of smoking in the human body
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Hazardous Effects of Smoking on the Human Health Since modern people live and eat satisfactorily, they began to concern themselves more about their health. These days we frequently can see many male ...

Title: Prescription Drug Abuse
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction. When we think of drug addicts and abuse we normally think of people who take the common street drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroine, or other illegal drugs. However most people don...

Title: Community Support Intervention for Alcohol Abuse
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Community support intervention (s) for alcohol abuse in adults living in Glasgow, UK; A Proposal Introduction International perspective on alcohol abuse Alcoholism is a collective term for alcohol ...

Title: The Mental Health and Addiction Service Development Plan
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Mental Health and Addiction Service Development Plan In the National context of Mental Health in New Zealand during 1800 and 1900, almost 50% of people living in New Zealand are experiencing of s...

Title: Prescription Drug Abuse and Addiction
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction: The studies that have been conducted to understand the concepts of drug abuse have had very misconception in narrowing down the concept of addiction. The main perceptions of the studies...

Title: Masturbation: Prevention and Treatment | Article Review
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Jamie Burden Scholarly Article on the Prevention of Masturbation: The scholarly article under consideration is Masturbation: Prevention and the Treatment written by A.Shekarey, M.Sedaghat Rostami, ...

Title: Research Study: Factors Causing Cannabis Use
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Factors Leading towards cannabis use and what can be done about them: A study carried out in local transport drivers of district Peshawar, Pakistan.   The problem of drug trafficking represents a...

Title: Health Promotion Strategies for Smoking Cessation
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Drawing on appropriate literature, provide a critical analysis of the application of health promotion philosophies, principles and approaches underpinning public health practice in relation to a rele...

Title: Media Effects on Teenage Drinking
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: JOE: A Teenager’s Struggle Stephanie Mikalatos Schools, government programs and parents working harder and harder to educate children, to “just say no” (Levinthal 387) [i] to drugs....

Title: Constructin Addiction as a Brain Disease
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Throughout history addictions in the USA and Canada have been understood and approached in many different ways: The Moral model (addiction as a character flaw or moral failing); Choice model (add...

Title: Strategy Proposal for Alcohol Addiction
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Propose a strategy to help reduce alcohol addiction based on your knowledge of current prevention, screening or intervention strategies.    Introduction Addi...

Title: History of Drugs and Addiction
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction:  Drugs and drug addiction have been around for thousands and thousands of years. Drug addiction is when one who uses any type of addictive substance becomes dependent on that substance, and ...

Title: Impacts of the Rise of Opiod Misuse in the US
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction The rise in opioid prescriptions in America proves abuse and mortality rates connected to overdose deaths. This drives physicians, nurses, and policy makers to change their ...

Title: Advantages and Disadvantages of Conceptualising Addiction as a Disease
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The question of whether alcoholism or drug addiction can be correctly defined as a disease has been the subject of debate for well in excess of 70 years. It has, however, been a very fer...

Title: Addiction to Prescription Drugs in the UK: A Public Health Disaster
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem all across the UK, dependency on prescription drugs can be just as harmful as addiction to street drugs, such as cannabis. The most common prescriptio...