Defining Drug Addiction
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After watching the video, reading through the power point, and reading the “Introduction to Addiction”, Please reflect on the following questions: 1. How have your original assumptions of addicts or addiction changed? 2. What thoughts do you have about the continuum of addiction? 3. What is missing or would you add to the continuum of addiction?
Video to watch: https://mediacast.ttu.edu/mediasite/Play/b77d60a97d0c4b87a678a767739c51ad1d
Power point: https://learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet02-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com/5fd77210592ae/6833591?X-Blackboard-Expiration=1625626800000&X-Blackboard-Signature=J9XeLNanVwwFB5Md%2Fx80SfW67eJCGyovKiKZ4nEnhAU%3D&X-Blackboard-Client-Id=300543&response-cache-control=private%2C%20max-age%3D21600&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27Introduction%2520to%2520Addiction%2520slides.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20210706T210000Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAZH6WM4PL5SJBSTP6%2F20210706%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=3f1884e6c9ade9ddc9e2d7637bcf10757df6ed46803da9078f348b1511fcdac8
Addiction
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July 11, 2021
Addiction
Although my basic idea about addiction hasn't changed, I always believe that it starts when a person tries something and can't live without it and that it eventually becomes more important than their loved ones. When left untreated or neglected by loved ones, addiction may devastate a person's life because an addicted person needs someone to draw their attention to their addiction and show them how important life can be.
But I discovered something new: addiction should be seen as a continuum rather than a dichotomous between being hooked and not being addicted. This is new to me because I had always assumed that if a person managed to stop their addiction, they would re...
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