The book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain follows Marc Lewis and his adventures in doing different types of drugs. Marc goes to boarding school in Boston, Tabor, where he was homesick and being bullied by the other children. Marc starts doing drugs to fit in. He started using legal drugs like cough medicine and alcohol but progressed to doing more illegal drugs like marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and LSD. The more illegal drugs were accessible at the Berkeley university since there was a large hippie movement.
The book starts of as another day for Mattie Cook. Mattie, her mother, a free worker, and another girl named Poly. One day, Poly was not at work even when the store closed for the day. Mattie was most curious and want to Polys house. Her husband had told her that she died due to a fever.
In the Elegiac Addict Angela Garcia argues that far from inducing recovery, medical and juridical understandings and approaches to addiction trap addicts into the painful past and moral dilemma, perpetuating the addiction and making relapse inevitable. Present medical definition treats addiction as a “Chronic health problem, not a moral failing or a social problem”, liberating the addicts from self-guilt and the social judgments based on morality. On the other hand, by emphasizing the chronicity, it produces the sense of hopelessness among the addicts and the belief that addiction is inevitably repetitive and endless. According to Alma, the woman author followed for part of her life, illustrates this point by pointing out that “the clinic didn’t
Growing up, kids are taught to dream to be whatever they want. They are taught to reach for the stars and let nothing get in their way of their dream. But what many people want isn’t always what they need. In the short story, “Paul’s Case” written by Willa Cather, this theme is displayed in Paul’s dreams of riches that aren’t exactly what he needs in life. Through quotes and symbols, Cather gives an insight into Paul’s world and how he dreams of the artwork in Carnegie Hall, the houses on Cordelia Street, and the lavish lifestyle of New York City.
Although some aren’t as abrasive as others, each one provides its own set of challenges. Sometimes, this can prove too much for a person and they try to find an outlet where they can “hide” from the world. They turn towards drugs and alcohol instead of fixing their situation. Eventually their “outlet” becomes an addiction and soon that addiction takes over their lives.
In James Baldwin short story "Sony's Blue" he uses music to represent Sonny's struggle with his addiction to heroin. Throughout the story, music was present whenever Sonny's addiction was mentioned. When Sonny first told his brother that he wanted to play jazz music for a living he mentioned that Charlie Parker was one of his inspirations, this is interesting because Charlie Parker was a drug addict who died from his addiction. This also seemed like it took place around the time that Sonny started abusing drugs with the goal of completely focusing on playing the piano. At the end of the story, Sonny talked to his brother about how he felt while he was taking heroin.
Courtney Grove Addictions/Assessments/Interventions Spring 2017 All of the personal stories in this book are an attempt to help individuals identify with the authors. Hopefully, after reading each story we, and alcoholics alike may say to themselves "I'm very much like _____. My alcohol use has followed a similar pattern and I have also tried different ways to control my drinking with similar, pained results. Perhaps the steps that _______ followed will work for me also.” This keeps the sneaky pull of alcohol at the forefront of their minds, learning from the experiences of others and remembering their own experiences from the reality standpoint rather than with fond remembrance.
Rebecca Boldan Mrs.Maples Ms.McDermott American Literature 7 March 2023 Drugs Ruin Lives “One in eight teenagers struggle with drug abuse or addiction in the US today,” according to drugabusestatistics.org. In Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, we enter the Native American populated city of St. Sault Marie, MI. Readers are taken on a journey in which readers learn how the use of drugs by these people led to many devastating and unnecessary events unfolding. Drug abuse and addiction is a huge social issue in the United States Drug addiction is a problem because it leads to violence. “ Lily lands on her back, arms outstretched, like she's floating in a pool.
In conclusions, an individual can be addicted to drugs when certain circumstances are developed. Angel’s addiction is probably one of the many people who have dealt with a similar situation. The fact that she was homeless and isolated made her vulnerable to abusing drugs. She becomes an addict from taking crack cocaine because it help her relieve her pain from loneliness, and gives pleasure so she could escape from her bitter reality. Her drug addiction has become so severe that she could not live without it.
The internet has changed the way we live our daily lives. It changed the way we socialize and has impacted the way we communicate. In the New York Times article, “Addicted to Distractions” by Tony Schwartz, it discusses how the author realized that his addiction to the internet prevented him from creating personal goals that will benefit him. For example, our author found himself one evening reading the same paragraph repetitively before concluding that he just can’t simply focus on the content of the book. This horrified the author because he once found pleasure in reading books, and now instead of reading them he finds himself spending countless hours on the internet.
Have you ever felt trapped unable to escape a certain situation, as if stuck in a room with no doors? It is easy to get lost in this feeling living in this type of world. Living in a world full of endless possibilities people tend to get trapped in their own vice. A professor of psychology by the name of Dr. Stone once said “We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us” (Stone 162).
Starting off with Addiction as my first topic I choose the film The Fighter. I feel this film fits addiction because it is a film about a boxer (Mickey) trying to gain fame after his bother’s (Dickey) fame in the ring; while balancing family and his brothers’ addiction. The two perspectives I would use to explain behavior in this film would be Sociology: family dynamics and Anthropology: boxing culture. I choose Family dynamics because the main character Mickey has a large controlling family run by the mother. The family interferes with Mickey’s Career and with Mickey’s relationships.
Contemporary society is a variety of all things good and bad that one might misinterpret as perfect if glanced upon with a pair of rose colored glasses. While new inventions and scientific breakthroughs, have lead to daily life and communication becoming easier to handle and manage, as a society humanity often times fails to see the adverse effects of these technological pursuits on itself. In the dystopian novel, Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley focuses a great deal on the idea of technology and control. He does so by grossly exaggerating many of the common technological advances of today and making them seem unrealistic and unbelievable, while in actuality are closer to the truth then far from it. Aldous Huxley showing the reader
My brother has been clean and sober for about a year. During the two years of his addiction I found it difficult to live with him and even be around him. I was never able to talk to my brother about his addiction because the drugs had transformed him into a completely different person as if someone else was living in his skin. I lived in complete fear of my brother. I didn’t feel comfortable at home whenever my brother was there, so I stayed out late to avoid being at home.
Drug abuse is the habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs in order to feel a euphoria, treat pain, or help with sleeping disorders. Drug abuse is a chronic brain disease that causes drug use despite the harmful consequences to the user and the people around them. In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the dystopian society portrayed is oblivious to the impact of the censorship around them. Books are banned and if found, they are burned along with their houses. The people in this society do not have time to think about anything because they are constantly surrounded by the constant chaos of loud noises on commercials or televisions and are over stimulated.
