Addiction Paper

Silka Holland

Class, Addiction Theory ADC 210

Professor, Walter Chung

October 17, 20011

Wesleyan University

(HOLLAND-WS-5 A5.doc)

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What do you believe causes people to become addicted and how you believe the criminal justice system should respond to those who are addicted and commit crime?

First and most before we answer this question we need to know that drugs has been around for many century and it has been use medically and also spiritually, however we need to recognize the sign and symptoms of addiction. Let’s look of many points of addiction, drug has been around and use in the medical field to treat all type of pain, like headache , surgery and also therapeutically, people has getting so use of taking drug just too easy their pain and to give them some kind of relief.

Therefore, addiction has been a topic for many decades; however some of the factor that I believe people becomes addicted is because of genetic, mental illness, and early use of drug, social environment and childhood trauma. However these are not just all the causes of addiction, generic addiction like alcohol addiction, it has been say that if there is a family member like parent addicted to alcohol, you will have a greater chance of been addicted of the same, because they say it run in the blood. However, the other major cause of addiction I will have to say mental illness, there are many people that suffer from mental illness like anxiety, depression or...