Addiction and psychology and diet

Addiction is the topic discussed in Bioethic today.

What is addiction - dependency, uncontrollable, craving etc.
Why treat addiction - health,crime,community etc.
Why not treat addiction - autonomy (right to have own choice), high relapse rate,expensive etc

What is the treatment - medication including subsituition,detoxification,anti-craving and aversion, psychological including motivation interview etc and social treatment including rehabitility etc.

I find the motivation interview particularly interesting. I remembered Sue is working on nicottine patch for smokers. Currently, nicottine patch is available for smokers who wish to quit smoking, I assume the patch exerts kinda anti-craving effect. Now, Sue is trying to add on psychology aspect - by printing photos (could be your love one, ur pet or things have the power to remind/motivate smoking quitting) on the nicottine patch. I thought it is interesting, you will see them as a source of will power/motivation/determination to quit. I want to print my photos as well as our family photos on nicottine patch and give to my dad, dunno if it motivates him to quit smoking =(

More addiction treatment should be available for gaming, internet, porn, gambling addictions besides alcoholic and smoking problems.

Suprisingly, I remembered alot and it was one of the most enjoyable bioethic lesson. But, what the lesson delivered is not helpful in our dissertation at all. Simply enjoy the lesson and so I involve in the discussion alot.

My middle east classmate revealled that she is addicted to sleeping pills when we were paired up in discussion. She only takes it in the UK but not when she returns to home country. Thats the adverse effect of leaving home country and love ones. I should be fortunate that I'm still handling well. But I'm always fighting with transitional stress and coping with various stressors due to academic performance, financial and etc.

Migrants or temporary translocation always results in adverse psychological impact and a series of undesirable impact when stay away from home and attempt adjusting to the culturally and linguistically different country. Nevertheless, it enhances one's life and grow experiences - adaptability to the new environment, world's view etc (Constantine et al, 2005; Satia-Abouta et al, 2002; Yoon, Lee and Goh, 2008).

The process of assimillating the host country culture by another ethnic group is called acculturation and this phenomenon can also be seen in diet (dietary acculturation)- as a result of behavouir modification. This is what I'm investigating. The literature review is killing me though I find them quite interesting, to combine the psychological aspect in my dietary acculturation study. But they are definately not easy. This weekened I shall touch on statistical analysis of the result, bless me to get through them as I hate statistic analysis (what p>0.005 is significant or not, standard deviation) and never use SPSS- t-test, square test, pearson etc...