It can affect your health because drinking too much alcohol can give you liver disease and can kill you if you drink too much of the wrong stuff. Also alcohol is full of calories so going out drinking every night will pile on the calories and can give you a so called beer belly which would not be good if you were an athlete as this would not look good in front of the coaches. Smoking: Smoking all the time can affect your lifestyle as smoking is very costly and if you get addicted then that means you will be constantly wasting money every week on cigarettes to try and feed your addiction. It can effect your health by that it can give you cancer if you are a constant smoker. The tar can get inside the lungs which can give you liver and lung disease and really effect your health badly.
If the vulnerable adult had used a cigarette to burn themselves or a hot instrument, they may feel this is a form of punishment, maybe for having their disability or for simply being who they are. If an individual is self-harming in the form of neglect, they may feel hungry, tired, and have a low self-esteem. Another form of self-harm is substance abuse; whether this be drugs, alcohol or prescribed medication. Upon taken the substance the individual may feel calm and relaxed and feel their pain has been numbed, however this is only temporary. Self-harm has many long term affects which can be very serious.
Cocaine is abused a lot these days and it can go very out of hand. It can be used for medical purposes such as eye and ear surgeries. Cocaine will affect you almost immediately after use. It can shorten the need for food and sleep and that can become very dangerous for your health. Cocaine can become dangerously addictive if taken in big amounts.
More or less it’s been good and bad. I ask why hasn’t marijuana been legalized across the country only because America has accepted much worse. There are substances sold daily that are far more damaging to the people of United States and its communities. Alcohol and tobacco is a substance that can cause long-term and short-term damage to the body. Alcohol alone can cause “high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, digestive problems” as well as depression, anxiety, and more (Alcohol and Public Health, 2014).
11/25/13 Heather Zink RN to MSN Student ID: 000310366 hzink@wgu.edu A. Describe the social problem you have chosen. Cigarette smoking is a social problem that is still common today. It may not have the public endorsement of the popular media that it once had, but smoking remains a widespread problem. Despite the stigma of cigarette smoking for multiple reasons, such as the risks to one’s health, the impact it has on one’s looks (ie.
Smokeless tobacco, also known as spit, snuff or chew, can have absolutely devastating results on the chewer. Some people use smokeless tobacco as an alternative to cigarettes. It is a misconception that chew tobacco is less hazardous to your health than cigarettes or cigars. The dangers of chewing tobacco are just as serious as smoking tobacco. It still contains nicotine and holds other dangerous chemicals, including 28 carcinogens (Mayo).
Leshner states, “As with many other brain diseases, addiction has embedded behavioral and social-context aspects that are important parts of the disorder itself” (Leshner). Recognizing addiction as a mental illness can help reduce the health and social costs that are directly related to treating addiction. Research has exposed that drug abuse is a severe health issue, as well as a social issue. Addicts become so obsessed with consuming the substance it causes their immune systems to shut down and causes the addict to be incapable of functioning properly in a social setting. Addiction has severe negative consequences affecting the addict’s mental and physical well being.
This is because chronic exposure to the nicotine eventually results in a chronic stress situation for the addict, characterised by withdrawal symptoms. This is effective at explaining why the smoking is maintained because as the withdrawal symptoms affect the user so negatively if the substance is stopped, the addiction is maintained to avoid this negative experience. Similarly the explanation is also as effective at explaining why the addicts relapse after giving up smoking. This is because as the withdrawal symptoms are so hard to resist and lead to such a negative experience, the user eventually takes the substance again to feel better. Also as the user’s brain is expecting a pleasurable experience from the addiction, it creates difficult to resist cues that the addict finds hard to
For example, a cigarette smoker who believes that smoking is bad for his health has an opinion that is dissonant with the knowledge that he is continuing to smoke. He may have many other opinions, beliefs, or items of knowledge that are consonant with continuing to smoke but the dissonance nevertheless exists too. "Dissonance produces discomfort and, correspondingly, there will arise pressures to reduce or
Many people believe drugs are what have brought our society to become so corrupt. I used to think this too, however, I was so wrong about them. They’re great! They may be somewhat expensive, but hey that’s okay. I know as long as I’m addicted to them the way I am, I could live forever.