How do I narrow down a substance abuse topic?
Question by Samantha: How do I narrow down a substance abuse topic?
In my sociology class we need to submit a research topic/question and I need some help narrowing down my topic. Our teacher says it has to be something plausible, debatable etc. It can be anything that doesn’t make sense if you study it if you get what I’m saying. Anyhow this subject is interesting to me so I think that will help.
Experience:
I work at a substance abuse treatment center
Some of the clients are veterans with PTSD etc.
My mom used from when I was 10-17 and my brothers were 1-7 and 2-8 she stopped because my brothers were taken away from her and she decided it wasn’t worth it.
My dad used from the time I was 10 until a few years ago. He abused marijuana, pain pills the lighter things if you want to call them until he went to Africa to help with the refugees. He then came back and got into meth really bad. (I’m 24)
My mom and dad divorced when I was 5 so I grew up with different relationships with both of them.
K so I’m thinking I want to do something that involves how having parents like that affect children, maybe some PTSD type stuff knowing that set my dad off when he came home from that horrid/rewarding experience.
I just have to narrow it down a little more and into a sort of question.
Best answer:
Answer by Maria
That’s kind of tough to narrow down. You could do something about how parents’ abusing drugs affects their children’s own development, or whether or not it causes the children to abuse drugs later in life, or whether or not there’s a genetic connection between the parents’ using and the children’s using – but maybe that’s too medical rather than sociological. Then again, it would be a great debate subject. You know, nature or nurture (so to speak)? Or you could do something about PTSD and how sufferers of PTSD self-medicate by abusing drugs, what their alternatives are, what the treatments are.
Great subject, and good for you in that you’ve risen above your upbringing and are doing something so meaningful and giving. Good luck with this. I wish I could have helped more.
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I read books all the time. Even when I’m supposed to study. Hence, my grades have gone down significantly. Please suggest ways of getting rid of this addiction.
Best answer:
Answer by Adam
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Answer by holly
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Best answer:
Answer by Brad B
rehab
Answer by priscilla r
go to rehab
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Question about addictions?
Question by brenna: Question about addictions?
Is it true that the more you STOP doing your addiction, the LESS you want it? Or is it the opposite, where the more you STOP doing your addiction, the MORE you want it?
Best answer:
Answer by John
This depends on what you mean by “addiction”. Addiction to a substance of any kind, including alcohol and especially tobacco, will create withdrawal symptoms. These are usually very strong cravings that can take differing lengths of time to get over depending on the substance. These strong cravings will increase until the detoxification process is completed in your body. Drug withdrawal programs usually last about 28 days to guarantee being clean. At the point a person can deal with the underlying cause of the addiction – what emotions are being avoided, what causes them anxiety.
There are many compulsive activities that feel like addictions since they are often used to help deal with anxiety in general: eating, shopping, watching sports, chocolate(mmm), sex, jogging, almost anything that a person does in response to anxiety over and over again.
These compulsions need to be managed, but they can also be stopped if the person does something healthier to deal with the anxiety. Anxiety is not an uncommon feeling, but most people can handle it with a variety of normal activities. A person is truly addicted to these things when they associate their anxiety with not doing the activity. Then they confuse anxiety with a craving for something.
Answer by Jeffrey
That concept is not always the same in all cases. It is a little theoretical. Depending on the agent involved in addiction that such idea gets true.
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