Sid Caesar and the Process of Addiction

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This paper examines the life of star comedian Sid Caesar from the 1950's. It produces theories and working examples of how someone becomes susceptible to a drug addiction and how Sid Caesar fit these theories. It looks at what in the comedian's life made him need and thrive on the drugs and how these eventually failed him.

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"Drug abuse and addiction affects every American either directly or indirectly with the economic burden alone for drug abuse estimated to exceed $109 billion in the latest estimate. Scientific advances, particularly over the past decade, have catapulted both our understanding and our approaches to addiction. Research has in fact come to define addiction as a chronic, and for many people reoccurring disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain. A variety of studies in both humans and animals have demonstrated that chronic drug use does in fact change the brain in fundamental ways that persist long after the individual has stopped taking drugs. By using advanced brain imaging technologies we see what is believed to be the biological core of addiction. This paper will utilize the addiction process of Sid Caesar and present a prognosis of the process of addiction as a whole. (National household survey on drug abuse, preliminary results 1997)"

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