Category: Drug Addiction

Adolescent Drug Addiction: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention Addiction is a rapidly growing issue impacting todays society. Unfortunatly, there are many different types of addictions and each one brings along a unique set of challenges. The American Phsychiatic Association describes addiction as a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance…

Heroin: Definition And Process Of Addiction Definition of addiction- WHO definition: The Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Health Problems (ICD-10) defines the dependence syndrome as being a cluster of physiological, behavioural, and cognitive phenomena in which the use of a substance or a class of substances takes on a much higher…

Treatment Of Heroin Addicts The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health stated that an estimated 2.1 million people in the United States [were] suffering from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012 and an estimated 467,000 addicted to heroin. (Volkow) Opioids are the most commonly prescribed drugs…

Stigma and Drug Addiction: Analytical Essay Illicit drug use is disapproved in most societies. It is highly stigmatized and for this reason, those people who have been lost in the world of drugs find this behavior harmful. While there is a wide research on drugs and alcohol abuse, few studies have addressed the problem of…

Is Drug and Alcohol Addiction a Disease Argumentative Essay Nature alludes to the entirety of the qualities and inherited elements that impact our identity, from our physical appearance to our character attributes. Nurture can be defined as all the environmental factors that sway who we are, including our youth encounters, how we were raised, our…

Informative Essay on Drug Addiction Say No To Drugs Few people deny the dangers of drug use, while many teens are curious about drugs. They should fail to abstain from drugs because drugs affect our health, and lead to academic failure. Drugs have been used for a long time in many countries. The concentration of…

Factors Behind the Increase of Drug Addiction among Sri Lanka Army Personnel: Analytical Essay The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) is the oldest and biggest organization of the Sri Lankan military and established in 1949 as the Ceylon Army, modified its name when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. The Sri Lankan Armed Forces are…

Opioid Epidemic in the USA and Its Main Causes In 2017 the number of overdose deaths involving opioids which includes prescribed medication and illegal drugs such as heroin and manufactured fentanyl was six times higher than in previous decades. 60 million Americans take opioids every day, that is 60 million Americans at risk for addiction…

Actions of the Malaysian Society for the Prevention of Drug Addiction among Youth Before we effectively deal with drug addiction, we must get a clearer picture of the problem as it stands in the current social context. The development of technology and the transformation of Malaysian society have caused the effort of the government, public…