Opioid addiction is very difficult to treat successfully or permanently (Park & Friedmann, 1997). The use of opioid replacement therapy or partial opioid treatment to prevent relapse in persons in treatment for opioid addiction or opioid withdrawal has proven successful in many cases (Vo, Robbins, Westwood, Lezama, & Fishman, 2016)....

The disease model of addiction can be defined as viewing addiction as a primary, non-accompanying ailment that is not caused by the conditions from another disease. Meaning that addicts may become deeply addicted to a drug or substance due to overlying emotional and social circumstances, but the addiction is not...

I was hungry and not really mentally prepared to watch a film about addiction. Sitting in my chair watching and listening to the first moments I was trying to convince myself to make something to eat. But then I heard “You don’t know that you’re falling in love with it”,...

Among hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular disease, is another very serious problem: drug addiction. Addiction to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, etc. does not harm any one particular age group but rather is harmful to all the age groups. The scary part is that any person, at any age can get addicted...

Often, celebrities involve themselves in drug and substance abuse for various reasons known to them. In the past years, high numbers of celebrities have been plagued with substance abuse challenges, with terrible outcomes (Lathan, 2017). Many have lost their lives while a few have survived after realizing the impact the drugs...