Addicts! Please take time to answer my questions…I’m writing a Term paper and I need your help.?
It’s for a Disability class, and my subject is about ADDICTION as a disability. (it’s apart of the ADA)
1. Has your drug and/or alcohol use ever prevented you from being able to show up for work more than 3-4 x’s in a 3 mo. period?
2. Has the ability to accuratley perform your job tasks decreased at times because of your use?
3. Have you ever wanted to stop or decrease your use so you can do the things you used to do before your use?
4. When you use do you isolate?
5. Do you consider yourself to be more active in your own life and decision making when you’re not using?
6. Does your use effect your relationships with your friends/family?
7. In life in general have you ever changed your goals to meet your behaviors instead of changing your behaviors to meet your goals?
8.Do you have a co-occuring diagnosis? If so, do your symptoms worsen when you use?
9. When you are using, do you consider your addiction to be disabiling to your life?
10. What is your definition of disability?
The Phoresite posted: 25 May at 6:54 am
1. My addiction prevents my working.
2. Yes
3. No
4. Yes
5. No
6. Not significantly
7. I have no goals
8. Yes, depression. Symptoms improve with use.
9. No, it is my life.
jac the hat posted: 25 May at 7:49 am
1.no
2.yes
3.yes
4.yes
5.no
6.no
7.no.
8 yes & yes
9 partly but its a self medicating payoff.
10. having limitiations – having to put up with stigma -being an outsider – not having any valid chips in the horrendous poker game of life.
kitty posted: 25 May at 8:19 am
1) yes
2) yes
3) yes
4) yes
5) no, well, sometimes.. it depends on the situation
6) yes. its horrible it gets in between everything
7)yes
8)no
9)yes
10) not being able to preform tasks the way you normally could or would be able to.
Mama Mia posted: 25 May at 8:33 am
For Answers 1-9, my answer is No.
I’m addicted to Coffee. # 10 :My definition of a true disability is, the people who can’t see beyond someones else’s disability.
golfers_r_me posted: 25 May at 9:22 am
Is this just a survey? I don’t mean to be condescending but you are not going to get much more than a cursory response. Yahoo answers is great but it would be impossible to answer these questions in enough detail. If it is just a survey, why not just make them up? You would learn just as much.
But if you are serious about the topic then I would suggest that you come up w/ better questions. These are all yes/no questions except for the last one. I’ve had two DUII’s and this looks a lot like an intake questionnaire.