Monday, 23 May 2005

• An addiction is to devote or surrender (oneself) to something habitually or obsessively. Depending on person, there may be many other definitions that aren’t as accurate. They might categorize it by what kind of addiction including a drug addiction, cigarette addiction, gambling addiction, and alcohol addiction. There are many types of drugs but they all have common symptoms of addiction. The drugs include narcotics, depressants, barbiturates, hallucinogens, and stimulants. They all produce pleasurable effects that may cause the person to desire more.

  Drug abuse is caused by an addiction and is a tremendous conflict in our society. According to data from the 1997 National Institute on Drug Abuse monograph Monitoring The Future, heroin use by American high school 12th graders was 100% higher than it was from 1990 to 1996 (0.90-1.8%). In 1997, there was a further increase to 2.1%. Drug use among teenagers and young adults is caused by psychological factors (such as stress, depression, and hopelessness) and social factors (such as peer pressure) combined to lead many people to experiment with and become dependent on drugs.

              Teenagers underestimate their risk of becoming addicted to drugs. This is the art of illusion of unique invulnerability. This term describes how people tend to underestimate their chances compared to other people who would be more prone to getting hurt. This term describes this situation with drugs due to the fact that once they underestimate their chances of being addicted they will try it. Since they tried it they will most likely be addicted too it. They will probably deny that they are but secretly desire it. This is a serious case, which leads to drug abuse and also lead to a relapse.

              People with these addiction problems or uncontrollable desires seek to find help in many different ways. Drug Addiction Rehab clinics can be found all over the world in nearly every city of the United States, there are also phone hotlines that contain help from professionals which is also accessible from anywhere your currently living. Patches of all sorts helps overcome addictive as well, just by going to your local doctor can be a step closer to finding help. Online you can find 100’s or not 1000’s of websites that people have made in the past couple of years to aid others to fight their addictions by letting people share their problems and overcoming them together day in and day out. SO many ways people can overcome addiction; all they need is help, to find it, to get it from others. People think that their addictions are abnormal and only they go through them when in reality everyone has suffered addiction once or twice in their life, many are still addicted.

               Addiction sometimes is compared to a sweet wine or a poison.  In ways it seems as if the longer the addiction the more harmless it gets. For example if a child is infatuated with drugs and then starts taking this drug day in and day out chances are this child isn’t thinking of the consequences, he’s enjoying it. I’m sure many people enjoy their addiction, even though when brought up that it is a huge problem most of them either don’t care or say that if they wanted to they could go cold turkey in one night. Cold turkey is a saying of when you fight or kill an addiction by yourself without any outside help. It works for some but majority of these people need to seek help. Addictions seem like a sweet wine, it gets better after time but it can also be a poison, killing you slowly, day by day.  Many teens are young and ignorant and don’t see this problem slowly inflicting them, addiction is a problem and the awareness must be brought. In order to understand more a survey has been made and we hope the results go well to what we believe.

              

   

  Bibliography:

   

  Meredith Maran. Dirty : A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

   

  Rod Colvin. Prescription Drug Addiction: The Hidden Epidemic. Nebraska: Addicus Books, 2002.

   

  Richard H. Schwartz. “Adolescent Heroin Use: A Review.” PEDIATRICS Vol. 102 No. 6. 1998. December <http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/102/6/1461?ck=nck

  
   

  Raymond Wong

  5/22/05

  C Band

   

              Over all the work we have done are pretty much shared. We communicated by phone and the AIM. I am proud of the group work involved and how much work we have done in the time being. I seek for the information and ask the team members and have their opinion on the matter. Our group possesses very good communication skills that made the project fly by and very much pretty easy to do. I also kept the group moving at a pace that we can work with and the group was excellent.

  
   

  Bryan

  C band

  Psychology

   

  Self Evaluation:

   

  Yup the work I did, I mean we did was shared evenly. We spoke on the phone and even ONLINE!!! I'm glad we got work done, this group was awesome, I felt like every member I worked with I thought I was in love with. It was an incredible feeling, have you ever been in love? Anyway the work pretty much was easy, we all worked together and it went by quickly. I enjoyed working on another school project cause it's easy with a team!

   

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