Ethical Issues in Mass Media

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Addiction is a behaviour that an individual cannot control them need to a substance such as alcohol, drugs, and/or cigarettes. Some psychological studies resulted in addiction is an inherited behaviour while other studies proved that addiction is an individual manner that has nothing to do with family genes. Also, some people think that addiction could be a brain disease. In my point of view, I see that addiction is an individual behaviour caused by several reasons. Many addicted people have many issues in their life that lead them to be alcohol or drug abusers such as financial, job, relationship problems, or any other stress issues. Addicted people can recover, as soon as they decide to, by quitting the manner by themselves or going to a rehab. Margaret Wente wrote an article “Is addiction really a disease?” in The Globe And Mail newspaper, it was mentioned in the article about a study that was done in the U.S. “soldiers who became addicted to heroin in Vietnam, no more than 12 percent stayed hooked after they got home.” That means, any individual who decided to quit can quit. another article was wrote about “Addiction is a Brain Disease” by Alan I. Leshner, MD, said that addiction for long period of time may cause “changes brain structure and function in fundamental and long-lasting ways that can persist long after the individual stops using them.” This brain changes change the individual social and psychological behaviour over time and lead some to go back to be drug abuser again. By looking at the YouTube video called “Ethics - Drug Use and Abuse“, the presenter discusses the limiting of an individual’s liberty, and mentions both advantages and disadvantages of the issue of legalizing marijuana; however, he leaves questions unanswered. Marijuana, or smoking in general, can have side effects not only on smokers, but also on non-smokers surrounding

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