Types of addiction
The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. -Dictionary.com
What is Addiction?
Advice or guidance, especially as solicited from a knowledgeable person.
What is Counseling?
Changes in appetite or sleep patterns
What is sudden weight loss or weight gain?
Some people may inherit a vulnerability to the addictive properties of drugs.
What is a Genetic Factors?
A state of near-sleep, a strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods
What is drowsiness?
A persistent, habitual use of alcohol.
What is Alcohol Addiction?
A set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems.
What is the twelve-step program?
Unusual smells on body or clothing
What is change in B.O?
The home, neighborhood or community where people live, go to school or work can influence whether or not they develop substance abuse problems.
What is an Environment?
The forcible voluntary or involuntary emptying ("throwing up") of stomach contents through the mouth.
What is vomiting?
Nicotine is the main addictive chemical in this type of addiction.
What is Tobacco Addiction?
The action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
What is a Rehabilitation?
First you're happy, then you're sad, then you're anxious, etc.
What are extreme mood changes?
More than half of people with substance use disorders have also had mental health problems.
What are Mental health issues?
Perception of objects with no reality usually arising from disorder of the nervous system or in response to drugs.
What is Hallucination?
Examples of this type of addiction includes: Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Fentanyl, Morphine, etc.
What is Opioid Addiction?
A branch of rehabilitative health that uses specially designed exercises and equipment to help patients regain or improve their physical abilities. -MedicineNet.com
What is Physical Therapy?
Unexpectedly and extremely tired or energetic
What is a change in energy?
Immediate rewarding experience that makes a person truly "joyous" or "happy" in spirit.
What is feeling good?
A disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
What is AIDS?
This type of addiction consists of three classes of prescription drugs that are often abused: Opioids, CNS depressants (Xanax, Valium), Stimulants (Adderall, Ritalin, etc.)
What is Prescription Drugs Addiction?
Preventing an offender's return to criminal behavior, particularly when treatment continues as the person transitions back into the community.
What is the Criminal Justice System?
New and unusual friends, odd cell-phone conversations
What are changes in social groups?
The emotional and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world.
What is Stress?
Lack of sharpness of vision with, as a result, the inability to see fine detail.
What is Blurred Vision?