Empathy and drug addiction Thomas Dawson Interpersonal Communication Empathy is the ability of one person to understand another’s point of view, and is important in some approaches to drug addiction treatment, in which the empathizer understands the addict’s point of view as valid. Empathy is powerful in building trust, and in developing a good relationship with the user, especially if the user’s behavior has lead to judgment and criticism from others in the past. It takes some people a very hard time to have empathy for drug addicts especially if they never had to go through life knowing and loving someone addicted to something as evil as drugs. Then after all the time, sweat and tears of understanding what empathy really means and to finally stop all the negativity and hate towards someone you love and to finally want to help this person you lose them to the power of the addiction. This happens every day to people all over the world, even me, and is a topic that people need to hear and understand.
Let not forget about the most precious commodities our children, Members of the general public, including children, can also be exposed. In various areas of the state of Massachusetts syringes can be easily obtained from some pharmacies or even from mobile walk up clinic stations. These methods are not only more convenient, but encourage the use of clean needles by intravenous drug user who may be reluctant to signal their addiction by going to a needle exchange program. Needle exchanges are valuable in bringing addicts into a formal, institutional system, through which they can be connected to various treatment programs, without the scrutiny. Without a needle exchange program we as a society must accept the fact that the incidence and mortality of HIV / AIDS and Hep C will increase drastically.
It isn’t right for Obama Care to force everyone to get health insurance but it is the most logically because insurance companies cannot deny anyone so that everyone can be covered. There are about 32 million people who don't have health insurance. If something happens, and they have to go to the hospital, they often just don't pay the bill, and the hospital has to cover it. To cover the costs, hospitals raise the prices of health care for everyone and if the prices are raised then the more a hospital patient that’s covered by
Regrettably, Byfield doesn’t give a sturdy case, and with misled facts and statistics, it’s hard to be influenced. Byfield starts by referencing a study that many young couples are focusing on their jobs and waiting until later in life to have children, or simply not having children at all. According to the essay, Canada isn’t one of the countries that has had “much ballyhooed ‘population explosion’” that would “crowd the world with wall-to-wall people” (222). Really, he’s suggesting quite the opposite, that the population we have could “wreak great havoc on the economies of much of the western world’ (223). He believes that the government is simply telling us these things because they would hate to admit that they were wrong in their earlier speculations.
What do statistics reveal? Statistically significant? 4. Alternate explanations? Bias in research- refers to beliefs that interfere with objectivity Placebo effect- a fake treatment, an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution can sometimes improve a patient’s condition simply because the person has the expectation that it will help them.
The 21st Century Energy Boom: An In-depth Analysis of the Benefits of Hydraulic Fracking The controversy of hydraulic fracking is mainly funded by energy corporations and environmental organizations, with the government slowly encroaching after public outcry. With the bias of pro-fracking from energy companies wanting to make money from newly found American natural gas prospects and the anti-fracking claims from environmentalist who are against drilling or operations on American soil wanting very restricting regulations on fracking that would make the process cost more and thus not have the economic benefits that are present now. Through the use of several databases, I have found several different articles that strengthen both sides of
They would all soon run out of business due to not being able to compete with a government system, "Additional taxes and mandated costs are to be imposed on health insurance companies, while a government-run "health insurance" bureaucracy will be created, ostensibly to "compete" with the private companies" (DiLorenzo). Even though citizens would be able to choose whether they wanted socialized medicine or not, it would not be plausible to stay with a privatized provider. The government can easily undercut the privatized business and further taxing the privatized sector, a business would not be able to run effectively with a profit. Since public payers are able to negotiate for lower costs, more people would end up in the public plan since it would be cheaper. In the end, there would be very few left in the private system (Clemmit).
Position Paper | The model of addiction etiology that best describes why people get addicted and how best to help them the biopsychosocial model. As the biopsychosocial model states, the causes of addictive behaviors are not isolated to just one area of the person’s life. A person usually sees the behavior itself as being satisfying in some way. The nature of the incentive, however, may vary from person to person, and may change over time. Some individuals may be rewarded by the energizing, exciting or pleasurable effects of a substance or of a behavior such as gambling, some people may engage in addictive behaviors because the physiological or psychological effects relieve physical or emotional pain or addictive behaviors may divert attention from upsetting or overwhelming life situations.
Now differentiating between what a good habit and what’s bad is interesting. John Dewey points out that when we think of bad habits it’s more like smoking, drinking, gambling, and drug use. He states that we that we believe that these kind of habits are initiated by desires and strengthened by a propelling power. However, when we think of healthy habits, like keeping the body in good shape, singing, drawing, walking, we do not quite consider these “habits”. Dewey believes we consider these more as abilities that exist far from our impulsive desires.
It is also accepted that prevention has to include more than just media campaigns which are often focussed on knowledge and information or even “scare” approaches to the topic. Media can be a very good means of raising awareness but without more long term input is unlikely to be effective whereas scare tactics, as with other “Just Say NO” approaches have been shown to be possibly counterproductive for many in achieving an effective prevention outcome. Drug Prevention is an essential component of any policy or practice with respect to tackling drug abuse. It is too often the element least catered for and which receives very limited profile and investment. However as with any issue that can offer certain benefits but which has significant risks and dangers attached prevention is vital.