Essays about Addiction Page 22

You open your eyes to a narrow hallway with various passages opening to the left and right. The walls seem to be made of some pseudo-stucco material. You ignore the passages as you head forward to the opening at the end of the hallway. A spacious chamber opens up before you, with three passageways that…

Addiction: It’s A Neurological DisorderAddiction is a neurologically based disease. For many years recovery specialists have compared alcoholism or addictions to a physical disease: like diabetes. In reality addictions are more closely related to a neurological disorder like Tourette’s Syndrome* than they are to diabetes. If the problems you suffer stem from severe alcoholism or…

The Effects of Parental Alcoholism on Children Until recently, the impact of alcoholism was measured by its effect on the alcoholic, such as days lost from work and highway fatalities. However, new research has concentrated on the impact of alcoholism on the family, especially the children of alcoholics. Numerous studies have reported on the familial…

Alcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages to such a degree that important things in an individual’s life, such as work, school, family relationships, or personal safety and health, are seriously and repeatedly interfered with. Alcoholism is considered a disease, meaning that it follows a characteristic course with known physical and social symptoms. The…

What we Prohibit We Cannot Control: Restriction Before Education?There is a definite problem regarding the laws that enforce drug use in the United States today. Think about this question. Why are some of the most injurious, addictive, and mind altering substances in the world–tobacco and alcohol–legal, while other drugs are illegal that potentially cause no…

You saved the very foundation of our Government. No man can tell where we would have gone, or to what we would have fallen, had not this repeal been brought about.” – Letter to the VCL, 1933. This is a story about a small, remarkable group of lawyers who took it upon themselves, as a…

Jean ToomerJean Toomer’s family was not typical of migrating African Americans settling in the North, or fleeing the South. Each of his maternal grandparents were born of a caucasian father. But a “speck of Black makes you Black. ” Thus, Toomer’s grandfather, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, was a free born black, a Union officer in…

You might be tempted to label Thomas Szasz, author of Our Right to Drugs, The Case for a Free Market, a counter-culture hippie. However, this analysis couldnt be further from the truth. Szasz, a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, is a major supporter of…

Alcohol and TeensFrom pastures to unsupervised blowouts at home, the social calendars of most teens are full of alcohol. Other drugs rise and fall in popularity from generation to generation, but alcohol never really goes out of style. From being worshiped by the ancient Babylonians to being forbidden to teenagers, alcohol has caused many problems….

The drinking age in the United States is a contradiction. At the age of eighteen, one can drive a car, vote in an election, get married, serve in the military and buy tobacco products. In the United States you are legally an adult at eighteen. An eighteen-year-old, however, can not purchase alcoholic beverages. The minimum…