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reading today. psychology talking about addiction. so let's analyze this article
and then I will do the quick read through at the end. Every 25 minutes in
the United States a baby is born addicted to opioids. That heartbreaking
statistic is but one symptom of an epidemic that shows no signs of abating.
The 33,000 overdose deaths from opioids in 2015 we're a 16% rise over the
previous year, which also set a record. Drug overdoses are now a leading cause
of death among Americans under 50. But only a part of a broader addiction
landscape that ranges from drug and alcohol abuse to obsessive eating,
gambling, and even sex. For this month's cover story, "the addicted brain", we went
in search of the "why?" Why do human beings get addicted to substances and behaviors
we know will harm us. what can new research tell us about addiction and the
brain, most important can what we're learning help more people recover? what
the author is doing so far is letting us know what the article is actually going
to talk about. this is basically an introduction, and we see a thesis. we
start with some simple facts before ending with our real topics: what causes
addiction, how do you stop it, what does new research tell us about it. if you
have to– if you have to write about addiction,
this is how you would introduce the topic. and what the author does very well
is tell us some of the questions that she's going to try to answer about
addiction. and remember it's always to be addicted *to* something. what we're talking
about in this article, because it is very popular very trending, is opioids. opioids,
heroin, a very serious, very addictive drug that you inject into your
bloodstream. the author describes this as an epidemic. an epidemic is something
that is very contagious and serious and growing out of control. with opioids it's
not just a problem, it's an epidemic. it shows no signs of going away and in fact
it's getting worse. it shows no signs of abating. to abate it's a very formal way
of saying going away. lessening. so it's not abating, in fact it
is getting worse. very rightly, the author says that this
is heartbreaking. if something is heartbreaking it means very devastating.
causes you a lot of pain emotionally. let's continue with the article. not long
ago the idea of repairing the brain's wiring to fight addiction would have
seemed far-fetched. medical writer Fran Smith reports in our story. but advances
in neuroscience have ended conventional notions about addiction. what it is, what
can trigger it, and why quitting is so tough. the very nature of addiction is
being rethought. in 2016, when he was US Surgeon General, Vivek Murphy, who's
interviewed in this issue, affirmed what scientists had contended for years. as
Smith says, "addiction is a disease, not a moral failing. it's characterized not
necessarily by dependence or withdrawal, but by compulsive repetition of an
activity despite life damaging consequences." this view has led many
scientists to accept the ones heretical idea that addiction is possible without
drugs. still, drug abuse takes a huge toll nationwide. nearly 200 billion dollars a
year in costs related to health, crime, and lost productivity. nowhere does this
play out more starkly than in West Virginia which owns
what senator Shelley Moore Capito calls an unfortunate distinction, the nation's
highest rate of drug overdose deaths. a native West Virginian elected to the
Senate in 2014, Capito sees the issue in personal terms.
the most heart-wrenching part is that it's hit everybody. I've been in meetings
where they tell you to look to the right or the left and say "that's what a heroin
addict looks like" let's reveal the last couple paragraphs. so we're talking about
how addiction actually happens. and a lot of it is because of the brain's wiring.
the wiring of something means the construction, how something is built and
operates. and a lot of new ideas about the brain's wiring would have seemed
far-fetched in the past. for something to be far-fetched means to seem crazy,
idiotic, unlikely. the new research today is up ending, he says, research from the
past. to up end means to turn something upside down, on its head. basically it's
kind of creating instability, uncertainty and some chaos. and this new research in
the past would have been considered heretical. for something to be a heretical
means it is outside of commonly accepted norms. not something that most people
accept. so if something is heretical, it's probably not accepted or viewed as
authentic or trustworthy. that's why in the past these ideas would have seemed
heretical, because we didn't have the science to understand it. and what we
have nowadays in the US are a lot of overdoses from heroin and other opioids.
an overdose is when you take too much of a drug and it either causes you to
become extremely sick or to die. and the senator from West Virginia says that
everybody is being hit hard. to be hit means to be affected negatively. for
example there have been some natural disasters recently, if you have been hit
by these, it means you have felt the consequences. okay we still have a little
bit left. let's finish. what she says is that turning the corner will require a
spectrum of solutions. everything from more support at the state
and federal levels for treatment and prevention programs, to more facilities
like Lily's place, a Huntington West Virginia Medical Center for babies born
dependent on drugs. "seeing the suffering" Capito says, "I've
learned not to be quite so judgmental." And that's it! this is not your normal
article or essay style of writing. here this is really an introduction, this is
the thesis – not for an essay, but for the entire issue or this month's magazine of
National Geographic. so we don't really have a conclusion here and a lot of the
paragraphs, especially the body paragraphs, don't have good transitions.
and let's look at a couple words from this last part. the senator says that
they will need a spectrum of solutions. a spectrum here means a variety, a wide
range, a diverse amount of solutions. and to be dependent *on* someone or something
means you need it. and for these babies born to heroin addicted mothers, these
babies are born with heroin in their bodies. so these babies are actually born
with a dependency. all right! let's finish with our quick read-through: New Insights
into Addiction. every 25 minutes in the United States, a baby is born addicted to
opioids. that heartbreaking statistic is but one symptom of an epidemic that
shows no signs of abating. the 33,000 overdose deaths from opioids in 2015 were
a 16 percent rise over the previous year, which also set a record. drug overdoses
are now a leading cause of death among Americans under 50. but only part of a
broader addiction landscape that ranges from drug and alcohol abuse to obsessive
eating, gambling, and even sex. for this month's cover story, "The Addicted Brain",
we went in search of the "why?" why do human beings get addicted to substances
and behaviors we know will harm us, what can you research tell us about addiction
and the brain, most important: can what we're learning help more people recover?
not long ago the idea of repairing the brains wiring to fight addiction would
have seemed far-fetched, medical writer Fran Smith reports in our story. but
advances in neuroscience have upended conventional notions about addiction.
what it is, what can trigger it, and why quitting is so tough. the very nature of
addiction is being rethought. in 2016, when he was US Surgeon General, Vivek
Murphy, who's interviewed in this issue, affirmed what scientists had
contended for years. as Smith says, "addiction is a disease, not a moral
failing. it's characterized not necessarily by dependence or withdrawal,
but by compulsive repetition of an activity despite life damaging
consequences." this view has led many scientists to accept the once heretical
idea that addiction is possible without drugs. still, drug abuse takes a huge toll
nationwide. nearly two hundred billion dollars a year in costs related to
health, crime, and lost productivity. nowhere does this play out more starkly
than in West Virginia, which owns what senator Shelley Moore Capito calls an
unfortunate distinction: the nation's highest rate of drug overdose deaths. a
native West Virginian elected to the Senate in 2014,
Capito sees the issue in personal terms. "the most heart-wrenching part is that it
hits everybody. I've been in meetings where they tell you to look to the right
or the left and say that's what a heroin addict looks like" what she's learned,
she says, is that turning the corner will require a spectrum of solutions.
everything from more support at the state and federal levels for treatment
and prevention programs to more facilities like Lily's place, a
Huntington West Virginia Medical Center for babies born dependent on drugs.
"seeing the suffering" Capito says, "I've learned not to be quite so judgmental"
All right! so I think we've learned a lot about this addiction problem that's
happening right now in the US. if you have any more questions about vocabulary,
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