Essays on Addiction

Smoking and its Impact on Health Smoking predisposes one to various health problems including cancer of the lung, addiction, and adoption of harmful behaviors. Amongst adult smokers, smoking patterns have shown no significant reduction and a possible rise in smoking in the young individuals and the preteens has been reported (Lando,...

Alcohol intoxication impacts diverse behavioral and consequential effects on individuals where the degree of the consequences significantly depends on the alcohol dosage. Diverse working memory tasks are impaired on the administration of alcohol due to the decreased executive cognition function occurring due to the implications of alcohol. While the execution...

This proposal will be illustrating different capability and expertise is said to be the main standard height of performance. The foundation of these unique capabilities has been given extra attention by different scholars and currently, there is proof for both heritability and the acquisition of expertise which depend on the...

The human body displays various reactions that are characterized by opposing tendencies. Such aspects affect flight and fight reactions, feeling of being hungry, and nerve firing among many other body processes. This paper will use psychological and physical mechanisms to explain how various opposing proceedings apply to the automatic nervous...

This article presents how teenagers using Cannabis are causing permanent damage to their brains. The study involved tracking and testing of 3,800 adolescents for over four years, from the age of thirteen. Adolescents have developing brains and the use drugs especially Cannabis at a young age relatively causes cognitive abilities...

Many states and countries have varied age limits for individuals who should be drinking.  My position on this issue is that the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 because it is hypocritical to deny a legal adult the privilege of drinking yet they have the rights to vote,...

Stakeholders' Failure to Find Long-Term Solutions Stakeholders have failed to find long-term solutions to issues that relate to gender inequality. Considerably, the decision of the writer to research on how education prevents women from financial abuse is one way of managing the factors that contribute to gender discrimination that targets women....

Chapter 5: Operant ConditioningPeople and other animals learn to learn to obtain or refrain from certain responses to obtain rewards or avoid negative consequences. Consequently, these conditions are created in the brain by the dorsal striatum and the orbitofrontal cortex. Dorsal striatum is particularly crucial in learning involving discriminative stimuli....

Addiction is basically a brain disease brought about by the long-term use of a substance. Being used to the practice of certain behaviours can also lead to addiction. On the side of drug addiction, according to the National Institute on drug abuse, Drugs alter the normal functioning of the brain...

Inappropriate use of drugs is a problem leading to myriads of challenges to the life of people across the world. In addition to harming the users, the drugs affect the life of family members. Moreover, the life of the society has a high potential of being affected by the mayhem...

Social Psychology            I am the founder and manager of John Allan enterprise, a technology company that deals with the manufacturing and installation of CCTV camera. The total number of employees in the company is forty-five. Recently, the company made an advertisement for a company marketing manager whereby James emerged triumphantly....

Suboxone is a drug that was approved by the United States to help in the management of addiction to opioids. (Schwarz, Cantrell, Vohra, " Clark, 2007, pg. 651-652). The drug is comprised of two chemicals fused (in ratio 4:1) in a single sublingual strip: naloxone and buprenorphine. The two substances...