Tag: Addiction
Addiction is a biopsychosocial disorder characterized by repeated use of drugs, or repetitive engagement in a behaviour such as gambling, despite harm to self and others.
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Negative Effects of Computer Addiction
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Computer addiction is really dangerous to our lives and has consequences that affect our physical health, academic performance and social interactions. The effect of computer in our physical health includes poor eye sight, obesity & weight loss and premature aging. ...
Last modified: 20th Oct 2021
Essay on Opioid Epidemic
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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....
Last modified: 22nd Apr 2021
Literature Review On Nicotine Addiction
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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....
Last modified: 12th Apr 2021
Drug Addiction In Pakistan Youths
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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....
Last modified: 16th Dec 2020
Biopsychosocial and Risk Assessment of Addiction Patient: Development of Treatment Plan
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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...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2020
Addiction: The Affects of Incarceration Without Treatment
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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....
Last modified: 25th Aug 2020
Communication Skills in Mental Health and Addiction
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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...
Last modified: 7th May 2020
Tobacco addiction case study
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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...
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
Interventions for Drug Addiction: Case Study
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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...
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
Comorbid Addiction Patient Case Study
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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 ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Treatment Options for Addiction
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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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Impact of Heroin Addiction on the Family
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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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Awareness Of Anti Smoking Campaigns Health Essay
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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 ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
The effects of smoking in the human body
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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 ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Prescription Drug Abuse
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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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Community Support Intervention for Alcohol Abuse
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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 ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Masturbation: Prevention and Treatment | Article Review
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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, ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Health Promotion Strategies for Smoking Cessation
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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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Strategy Proposal for Alcohol Addiction
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Propose a strategy to help reduce alcohol addiction based on your knowledge of current prevention, screening or intervention strategies. Introduction Addi...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
History of Drugs and Addiction
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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 ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Impacts of the Rise of Opiod Misuse in the US
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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 ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Advantages and Disadvantages of Conceptualising Addiction as a Disease
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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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
