Category: Drug Addiction

Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry (Csiernik, R. 2016). Addiction is like a trap you go there to escape from your problems or harmful effect in your life. We treat addicts differently because of their dependency. It is like a spider web, likes like weak, soft, and…

Addiction is the feeling of wanting more and more of something to satisfy yourself. It is when one cannot control themselves from doing something repetitively. Drug addiction for example is a issue that is widespread in our world, it has a huge impact on the mind, and tends to influence a persons emotional and physical…

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 use despite harmful consequence. Drug addictions hinder and restrain…

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 priority for a given individual than…

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 for managing moderate-to-severe chronic…

The number of drug dependent persons in Nigeria has continued to be on the increase as observed by the number of clients who visit the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency centers for treatment and rehabilitation. Efforts by the Nigeria police force, offices of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Civil defence, customs and other law…

In this world, there are many problems. Drugs are one of them. Drug abuse, the horrible process of gutting your soul, is something that can affect anyone, from any country. Heres why. When someone consumes a substance that can be addictive, it automatically goes to the brain. The brain is like a supercomputer, but instead…

Introduction Drug addiction is defined as a lack of control over the taking of drugs to the point where it becomes harmful to the individual. Drug addiction in the UK is renowned for being an expenditure on the NHS’s time and resources as well as the cause of more than 4,000 deaths a year. Being…

Introduction It has been designed to assess reasons, consequences, and context for the use of drugs in clubs by adults in the city of U.S. There was a report from the adults for the utilization of drugs like GHB, Ecstasy, Rohypnol, LSD Ketamine, etc., in club under the interview discussion which included the measures of…

Drug abuse is a prevalent problem among Pakistan’s youth, who account for 28% of the whole population of Pakistan (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013). Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences. Youngsters, both girls and boys, experiment with…