ACE ORIGINS OF ADDICTION

Addiction of substance is caused by several factors and like most people I believed it is solemnly caused by property intrinsic of which it extents to the molecular edifice. In my view, any compulsiveness of substance has everything to do with the societal, medicinal, therapeutic and not forgetting the obvious legal consequences. Although, the way I did comprehend how addiction comes by is very different to what any other physician would say and no doubt a confusion of certain mechanism derails the contrivance with the usual root of the problem (Felitti, 2). However, the new evidence provided by group of dedicated team from San Diego has proved otherwise going by their Adverse Child Experiences (ACE) study. This newly fangled discoveries challenges all the initial unadventurous understanding of what really cause addiction, the intense childhood exposure stands at the top notwithstanding how it has always been shelved. The transformation starts from psychosocial know-how to the type of organic issues and mental illness in ACE of which it is capable of even lasting more than half a decade later after the consumption of the substance (Guydish et al, 54). Notably, the same very ACE is key factor responsible for the health and social care of our Nation and thus it is very vital for proper research to curb this menace forever. Additionally, my initial perception got twisted after learning about the new findings in respect to nicotine addiction especially around California in which KP study took place. Consequently, an adverse childhood experience is directly proportional to addictive smokers exclusively on presents of substance users in the households (Guydish et al, 59). In most cases we find ourselves diluting the facts when we get confused with psychoactive advantages and in the event such would lead to development of chronic diseases (Vink, Willemsen, Boomsma, 359). Interestingly, the findings courtesy of Kaiser Health Plan (KP) expounds injection of drugs in comparison to ACE and still the effects majorly rely on dosage response graph unlike what most of us thought (Felitti, 7). Who else knew, despite the fact that the significant discourage of smoking has been ongoing for the longest time, smoking has been on the rise courtesy of the benefits of psychoactive. Furthermore, the positive benefits such as anger control, anxiety and appetite gains are the other reasons why the addiction is constantly rising (Felitti, 7). Bearing in mind the study was very comprehensive and exclusive to the extent of making a follow up so as to attain a match of ACE besides any hospital visits, pharmacy, emergency visits and death is prove that this would be relevant for any nursing research in respect with substance addiction. Outstandingly, the findings would give more openings in regards to what need to be changed in pediatrics and most importantly adult treatment since this the thriving stage. Likewise, the significance of the research would have a lot of impact when it comes to cost and efficacy of the medical needs; coming up with ways of implementation and strategizing on how to thwart compulsiveness for good. Basically, experience indicates that primary prevention is always the better solution compared to treatment at advanced stage and it is for this reasons we are grateful of the findings. Certainly, we all agree by now that, the usual believe on addiction is not what it is and adverse child experiences could be the reason as we are all aware this happens around our homestead.

 

Reference

Felitti J. Vincent (2004).The Origins of addiction

Guydish J, Jiang Y, Thao L, Pagano A, Delucchi K. Predictors of Tobacco Use Among New York State Addiction Treatment Patients. American Journal Of Public Health [serial online]. January 2015;105(1):e57-e64. Available from: Professional Development Collection, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 17, 2016.

Vink J, Willemsen G, Boomsma D. Heritability of Smoking Initiation and Nicotine Dependence. Behavior Genetics [serial online]. July 2005;35(4):397-406. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 17, 2016.