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Law and Policy: Court-Ordered Treatment Summary
1,113 words, approx. 4 pages When substance abusers are arrested and appear in court, judges sometimes order the person to go through drug treatment. Court-ordered treatment is also known as coerced treatment. The theory behind court-ordered treatment is that substance abusers...
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Drugs, Addiction And Abuse : Men and Masculinities
908 words, approx. 3 pages By the early twenty-first century, drug abuse and dependence have been called public health, social, criminal and economic problems across the globe. Most nations have experienced undesirable rates of drug abuse historically and continue to do so...
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Wikler's Pharmacologic Theory of Drug Addiction Summary
619 words, approx. 2 pages Abraham Wikler (died 1981) was one of the first researchers who, in the late 1940s, strongly advocated the idea that drug abuse and relapse following treatment are influenced by basic learning processes. Early in his career, Wikler became interested in...
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Addiction Research Unit (Aru) (U.k.) Summary
490 words, approx. 2 pages The Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, was set up in 1967 on the Joint Maudsley Hospital/Institute of Psychiatry campus in Camberwell, South East London, England. Its funding has come from many different...
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Drug addiction Information
6,766 words, approx. 23 pages
 Drug addiction is considered a pathological state. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behavior, the vulnerability to relapse, and the decreased ability to respond to naturally...




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 The Independent - London
Addiction is the drug
07/08/1995: 853 words, approx. 3 pages We all know how addicts can use anything - sex, drugs, booze, food, fitness, dieting, TV, sport, ambition, consensual reality, you name it - to avoid certain feelings - and reinforce others In a seven-sided room above a church in west London, about...
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 The Boston Globe
A Drug-addiction Challenge
08/03/1988: 393 words, approx. 1 pages Governor Dukakis deserves great credit for initiating -- and funding -- the most ambitious program in the nation aimed at getting drug addicts under treatment to cure their addiction and prevent AIDS. This step also could lead to placing the treament of addiction in...
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Tajikistan grapples with drug addiction
12/10/2006: 773 words, approx. 3 pages Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood."I tried it, I liked it and it went from there," said the haggard, fidgety, out-of-work 24-year-old...
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Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 96%
Implications and Historical Background to Drug Addiction
1,318 words, approx. 4 pages
 Addictions are addictions of the mind, as much as they are addictions of the body. A person can be just as addicted to an activity as to a substance. Man has battled various addictions since his earliest beginnings. The advancement of society has changeds only to what people may become addicted.
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True Road to Recovery
1,196 words, approx. 4 pages
 This essay is a look at the options an alcoholic or drug addict might have when trying to recover. It also focuses largely on the factors that effect what works and what doesn't work a person based on their race, ethnicity, gender, age or social status.
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"The Addicted Brain" by Eric J. Nestler and Robert C. Malenka
693 words, approx. 2 pages
 Our understanding of drug use and addiction is greater now than it was in the past, but much is still unknown. In their article "The Addicted Brain," published in Scientific American, Eric J. Nestler and Robert C. Malenka discuss the intricacies of drug addiction and the obstacles associated with both quitting a drug addiction and finding a cure for it.


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