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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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, ...
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Research Study: Factors Causing Cannabis Use
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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...
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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...
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Media Effects on Teenage Drinking
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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....
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Constructin Addiction as a Brain Disease
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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Addiction to Prescription Drugs in the UK: A Public Health Disaster
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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...
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