People with chemical addiction and the features of their life orientations

We consider the current issue of teenagers’ attitude to psychoactive substances. A comprehensive study of the value relationship of teenagers to psychoactive substances and the motivation for their use is necessary. The teenagers development crisis leads to a drop in academic performance, a decrease in working capacity, negativism, alienation, ambivalence of feelings and much more, it is noted that the demonstrative “adulthood” of teenagers, their acute experience of the discrepancy between the external and internal worlds often lead them to behavioral transformations aimed at remaking reality for themselves. Based on the types of deviations characterized in psychology, we analyze the causes of chemical addiction. In the course of the study, we identify the main reasons that encourage teenagers to try drugs and consider the age differentiation of the reasons. The main motives of alcohol consumption by teenagers are determined. The results of the study were analyzed by gender of the respondents, and the peculiarities of the attitude to psychoactive substances and persons who use the above substances were noted. We present an expert assessment of the risk of teenagers’ dependence on psychoactive substances, given by schoolteachers, and identify the main causes that affect the risk of developing addiction. We note the necessity of conducting psychological preventive work with this group of respondents and the environment.

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Medical Care Utilization as a Function of Recovery Status Following Chemical Addiction Treatment

Journal of Addictive Diseases ◽

10.1300/j069v12n01_08 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 97-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Norman G. Hoffmann ◽

Sara S DeHart ◽

Jayne Fulkerson

Keyword(s):

Medical Care ◽

Addiction Treatment ◽

Care Utilization ◽

Medical Care Utilization ◽

Recovery Status ◽

Chemical Addiction

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Features of Irrational Settings, Willful Self-Control, Compatible Behavior at Mothers of Chemical Addicts with Different Expression of Interdependence

Herald of Omsk University. Series: Psychology ◽

10.24147/2410-6364.2020.3.26-32 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 26-32

Author(s):

Victoria E. Kupchenko

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Irrational Beliefs ◽

Self Control ◽

And Coping ◽

Chemical Addiction

The article describes the results of a study of the phenomenon of co-dependence in women with sons with chemical addiction. We studied the presence and severity of irrational beliefs, the level of volitional self-control and its components (perseverance, self-control), as well as coping strategies in mothers of chemical addicts. In the course of the study, we found that mothers with pronounced and moderately pronounced co-dependence have differences in the level of self-control, the severity of irrational beliefs and coping strategies.

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From Impulse-Control Disorders Toward Behavioral Addictions

CNS Spectrums ◽

10.1017/s1092852900015108 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 921-922 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefano Pallanti

Keyword(s):

Substance Dependence ◽

High Rate ◽

Opioid Antagonist ◽

Chemical Stimulus ◽

Behavioral Addictions ◽

Compulsive Sexual Behavior ◽

Social Foundations ◽

The Social ◽

Chemical Addiction ◽

The Brain

In the last 20 years, research on substance addictions has changed its focus from the social foundations to the neurobiological foundations. Hence, some behaviors have begun to be considered as equivalent to addiction based on proposed criteria: salience, withdrawal symptoms, tolerance, conflicts, relapse, and mood modifications.New knowledge about the brain's reward system suggests that “as far as the brain is concerned a reward is a reward, regardless of whether it comes from a chemical stimulus or an experience.”Pathological gambling was the prototypical addiction disorder, sharing some hallmarks with substance addictions: a high rate of comorbidity and treatment response to pharmacotherapies, such as opioid antagonist. However, compulsive sexual behavior, compulsive exercise, food starving, binge eating, and, most recently, Internet addiction have been gradually conceptualized as non-substance addictions with overlapping features with substance dependence. Several definitions” have been adopted regarding these behaviors: natural addiction, non-chemical addiction, and negative dependence are only some examples. This issue of CNS Spectrums focuses on behavioral addictions.

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