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The Biological Causes of Alcoholism Ironically, it is the brain's ability to be so adaptive that contributes to the formation of addiction. Addiction causes changes to the brain in at least four fundamental ways: 1. Addiction causes changes to the brain's natural balance (homeostasis).
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How Does Addiction Affect the Brain? Each person's normal balance is individually determined. Drugs of abuse and activity addictions lead to changes in this normal balance. Chronic over-stimulation of the brain (like that which occurs in addiction) interferes with the maintenance of this balance (homeostasis).
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Parents Face Difficult Decisions When Dealing With a Drug-Addicted Child Experts say the key is balance. Parents should insist the addict change behavior, stop using drugs and get treatment. But the family should still be willing to offer some lines of support. Also importantly, loved ones should get good advice and not try to go it alone.aren Franklin feared it would be her family's story, too. She watched helplessly as her teenage daughter, Lauren, descended into a methamphetamine addiction. Franklin took the door off Lauren's room and even moved her furniture out on the patio. It did help change her behavior for a brief time, Franklin said.
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- A number of factors contribute to addiction. On the surface, addiction is caused by physical changes in the brain that make the body crave certain substance or behaviors and react negatively when it doesn’t receive it. However, genetic and environmental risk factors contribute to addiction on a deeper level.
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- 3) Psychological Models: Addiction is a secondary symptom of underlying psychological disorders. Alcohol or drug use is learned and reinforced behavior. 4) Disease Model: Addiction is a primary, chronic, and progressive disease, probably caused by a genetic predisposition.______________________________________________________________________________________. Summary -. The moral model is not widely accepted and discourages people from seeking treatment. Sociocultural and psychological models explain addiction as a result of environmental or personality factors.
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- The aim of this book is to help Muslims who have an addict in their family through better understanding of addiction and the role the family plays in recovery, not only for the addict but for themselves as well.
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Regular articleParental control, parental warmth, and psychosocial adjustment in a sample of substance-abusing mothers and their school-aged and adolescent children In this investigation, we examined associations of parental control and parental warmth, respectively, with children's behavioral and psychological adjustment in a sample of 98 women enrolled in methadone maintenance and their school-aged and adolescent children.
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The Genetics of Drug and Alcohol Addiction Your genes are not your destiny. The 50% of addiction that is caused by poor coping skills is where you can make a difference. Lots of people have come from addicted families but managed to overcome their family history and live happy lives.You can use this opportunity to change your life.he 50% of addiction that is caused by poor coping skills is where you can make a difference. Lots of people have come from addicted families but managed to overcome their family history and live happy lives. You can use this opportunity to change your life.
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Overview Like many mental health disorders, several factors may contribute to development of drug addiction and dependence. The main factors are: 1  Environment. 2  Environmental factors, including your family's beliefs and attitudes and exposure to a peer group that encourages drug use, seem to play a role in initial drug use.
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Alcoholism and the Family Alcohol Addiction Affects Families. Alcoholism can also ruin the lives of family members. Alcoholics have difficulty taking an objective view on life, and they may not realize that they are acting in an unfair or even abusive manner.lcoholism and the Family. Alcoholism has two features which make it a uniquely family-related issue and concern. In the first place, it appears alcoholism has a strong genetic component and susceptibility can be passed down through the generations.
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HOMEOSTASIS AND FAMILY July 18, 2012. Families will even destroy themselves in an effort to maintain “homeostasis.” If you’ve ever studied Latin, you know that the big word homeostasis simply means “same status,” My family certainly learned the truth of this principle when one of our kids struggled with drug addiction.
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Lyndon B. Johnson And there is an additional lesson for policymakers and the country at large: One never truly knows how a major change in national policy will turn out. Few policymakers 50 years ago thought the Immigration Act would have such profound consequences. In signing the bill into law, Johnson, who loved to claim big ideas and big programs as his stock in trade, said, This bill we sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions.
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- The aim of this book is to help Muslims who have an addict in their family through better understanding of addiction and the role the family plays in recovery, not only for the addict but for themselves as well. Sadly today the Muslim community has its share of drug and alcohol problems.
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Cause/Effect/Factors, Homeostasis is altered with This is sometimes a concern as from mutated genes cancer can come or already be in your genes. · Medical: when wrong doses of medication are given, trial and error with medication to try to fix homeostasis can cause harmful reaction and potentially death. because evaporation at a fast rate is unable to occur.
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What are the medical consequences of drug addiction? Three of the more devastating and troubling consequences of addiction are: 1  Negative effects of prenatal drug exposure on infants and children. 2  Negative effects of secondhand smoke. 3  Increased spread of infectious diseases.
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- Nicotine Addiction - Prognosis. 1  The detrimental health consequences of nicotine addiction are enormous. Tobacco smoking is responsible for 1 of every 5 deaths and is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. 2  Tobacco accounts for more than 85% of all deaths due to lung cancer.
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Borderline personality disorder Family environment mediates the effect of child sexual abuse on the development of BPD. An unstable family environment predicts the development of the disorder, while a stable family environment predicts a lower risk. One possible explanation is that a stable environment buffers against its development.
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Understanding Drug Use and Addiction Photo by ©/Shutterstock. 1  Biology. The genes that people are born with account for about half of a person's risk for addiction. 2  Environment. A person’s environment includes many different influences, from family and friends to economic status and general quality of life. 3  Development.
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- The Commonwealth’s percentage of costs funded (as a percentage of. expenditures) to Virginia’s jails increased to 45.2% in FY 2010 (40.7% for 2009). Commonwealth Construction Reimbursements increased from $17.6 million in FY. 2009 to $149.3 million in FY 2010.
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I am Adam Lanzaâs Mother 1 Home and Family. 2  The influence of the home environment, especially during childhood, is a very important factor. 3  Parents or older family members who abuse alcohol or drugs, or who engage in criminal behavior, can increase children’s risks of developing their own drug problems. 4  Peer and School.
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The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction: The Basics These brain changes can be long lasting and can lead to many harmful, often self-destructive, behaviors. Abuse of and addiction to alcohol, nicotine, and illicit and prescription drugs cost Americans more than $700 billion a year in increased health care costs, crime, and lost productivity.
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The Big Question: Why Do Some People Get Addicted and Others Donât? Vulnerability to this disease varies and is based on differing factors. It can affect one person and pass another. It can take hold of one family member’s life, but make no impact on his brother’s. It can skip generations or show first signs in a family with no history of addiction present. Primary factors are genetics (family history of addiction), age of first use, environment and existing mental health problems.
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- We examine the impact of a. person’s chronic illness on the psychological health of all persons in. his or her family and identify both individual and family-level risk. factors associated with psychological spillovers. Methods: Our analysis is based on data from the 1996 Medical.
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- There is a 4th school of thought, which has proven to be more accurate. It has to do with the life cycle of addiction. This data is universally applicable to addiction, no matter which hypothesis is used to explain the phenomenon of chemical dependency. The life cycle of addiction begins with a problem, discomfort or some form of emotional or physical pain a person is experiencing.
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Family estrangement Substance abuse and alcohol abuse, on the part of either the estranger or the estranged, are common causes of family tension and the resulting estrangements. The most highly predictive domain of social estrangement for both alcohol and drug dependency is homelessness.
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Alcoholism in family systems Alcoholism in family systems. Alcoholism in family systems refers to the conditions in families that enable alcoholism, and the effects of alcoholic behavior by one or more family members on the rest of the family. Mental health professionals are increasingly considering alcoholism and addiction as diseases that flourish in and are enabled by family systems.
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To Parents of Alcoholics / Addicts Parents do not cause their children to become alcoholics-or drug addicts. Alcoholism / addiction is not caused by environmental factors. It is a physiological, genetic allergy-a hereditary predisposition involving brain chemistry.A parent does not cause a child to become alcoholic or drug addicted. The emotional wounds provide reasons to drink and use, are the fuel that drives an alcoholic/addict's behavior, but are not the cause of the disease.