The phrase "addicted persons" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals who have a dependency on a substance or behavior, typically in a formal or clinical context.
Example: "The study focused on the challenges faced by addicted persons in seeking treatment and support."
Alternatives: "addicted individuals" or "people with addictions".
The current finding may hold important implications for future addiction research in interpreting why addicted persons often discount more by delay than non-addicted controls, i.e., delay to reward or uncertainty about delayed rewards?
Here, we report findings from a sample drawn from the Australian population that examined how labelling addiction as a 'brain disease' was related to the public's views of addicted persons, the best treatments for addiction, and whether coercion or punishment of addicted persons was a justifiable approach.
This study examines the extent to which predictions made by proponents and critics of the brain disease model are reflected in public attitudes towards addicted persons, policy and treatments for addiction - part of our broader anticipatory analysis of the public health and policy implications of addiction neuroscience research [ 6].
We investigated whether beliefs about addiction being a 'disease' or 'brain disease', and holding certain beliefs about addiction aetiology, are associated with public views about addicted persons and support for different types of treatment, coerced treatment and punishment for addiction.
The long-term recovery rate among people receiving addiction treatment is only incremental to the recovery rate of addicted persons who go untreated [ 1], suggesting that the theoretical bases of current treatments are inadequate.
Five logistic regressions were conducted to investigate factors associated with beliefs about coerced treatment (alcohol and heroin), the degree to which participants felt 'comfortable' with addicted persons (alcohol and heroin) and whether they supported imprisonment for addiction (heroin only).
In various scenarios of addiction, the addicted person's fixation on a shadow reality — one that does not conform to the world outside his or her use — is apparent to others.
This narrative is paraphrasing both the ALICE RAP acronym and the concept of an ideal, addiction regulated future, treating every addicted person on an equal footing.
3. Support perceived to be effective - mindful management of power imbalance: in addition to supporting the addicted individuals in a practical way, the sponsors of all those who made improvement asked the addicted person for help, particularly in personal matters.
Over the course of addiction drug-related stimuli become extremely attractive to the addicted person and tend to grab the attention [3], [41].
Remember that an addicted person will not find it easy to get over addiction, and they will find it hard to listen to you telling them to stop playing it.
