Addiction is a vicious reality for a large portion of the world's population. For those that have succumbed to addiction, it can wring the life from their eyes and force them into being people they never dreamed they'd become. For their loved ones, it can be a painful cycle of...

Addiction is not a disease, but rather it is a Choice. The compelling, multidimensional argument that conceptualizes drug addiction as a disease is misleading as well as erroneous. Best survey data existing reflects that many drug addicts can quit their addiction, factual information that is inconsistent with a disease model...

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...

When considering a clinical question for nursing practice, it is important to be certain that the question is one that has an appropriate population, an appropriate intervention to be tried, a comparison made with current practice, and outcomes (measures of whether the intervention was significantly better than the interventions being...

Addictions are an acute problem in the 21st century. According to the Centers for Disease Control of the U.S., 8.9% of individuals surveyed in 2010 indicated they had engaged in illicit drug abuse during the previous month. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported 15.5 - 38.6 million people worldwide had...