Drug Addiction

Thesis Statement

“Prescription drug addiction is growing infection in the United States and is most successfully treated with rehabilitation hubs and unchanging upkeep through twelve-step programs”

Introduction

Drug addiction as a communal occurrence is a relatively latest construct. That is, regardless of the use of psychoactive drugs for thousands of years, drug use and abuse only became a communal problem when the functioning of a constituent of a specific assembly or the undertakings of the assembly itself became weakened through another's drug-taking behavior. Thus, the assembling of drug addiction developed through the interconnectedness and influence that one person's behavior has on another. Although the phrase addiction finds its origins in the Latin addic-tus, meaning “to deliver” or “to devote,” it was not until William Shakespeare modernized the phrase in Henry V that it took on a meaning alike to that of today. Still, Shakespeare's quotation to addiction mentioned more to the king's predilections for theology than any drug use. “Despite this evolution of the vernacular, the persons of very vintage Greece and Rome knew that numerous compounds (e.g., opium) were adept of producing varying grades of dependence. This paper talks about drug addiction and its rehabilitation through twelve-step programs.”(Belenko 2000 45)

 

 Discussion

Twelve-Step fellowships are commonly identified and widely came to assemblies for recovery and support. Involvement in Twelve-Step assemblies for example Alcoholics, Narcotics, and Cocaine is correlated positively with both retention in remedy and abstinence. Most Twelve-Step assemblies insert a religious aim in the direction of life, espouse principles of perform, and provide ongoing support for as long as a one-by-one desires to participate.

The Twelve Steps have been recounted as a way of life and are directed in a kind of recovery fellowships. Behavioral matters for example compulsion or addiction to sex, nourishment, and gambling have been discovered to be settled, or not less than put in remission, with the daily application of the Twelve Steps in such fellowships as Sexual Compulsives, Overeaters, Gamblers , and Emotions.

There are Twelve-Step assemblies that have been acclimatized to rendezvous participants' desires, preferences, and grade of comfort. Depending on the population and possibly geographic location, there may be women's assemblies, assemblies for persons who are hearing weakened, men's meetings, Spanish-language assemblies, meetings for agnostics, gay, lesbian, and bisexual assemblies, juvenile people's meetings, and meetings for beginners. (Boren 12)

 

The Twelve Steps of Recovery

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We accepted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Came to accept as factual that a Power larger than us could refurbish us to sanity.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we appreciated Him.

Made a searching and brave lesson inventory of ourselves.

Admitted to God, to us, and to another human being the ...