Addiction means to be physical and mentally dependent on a particular substance‚ and unable to stop taking it without incurring adverse effects. According to American Society for Addiction Medicine (2012)‚ “Addiction is a primary‚ chronic disease of brain reward‚ motivation‚ memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological‚ psychological‚ social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief
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Roles Knowledge and Addiction Play In Palahniuk’s novel “Choke”‚ a med-school dropout and sex addict‚ Victor Mancini‚ takes a the job playing a colonial era servant to pay for the care of his Mother. Due to the excessive medical bills‚ he has to play the role of a ruthless con artist. Victor’s scam is to pretend to choke on food while dining in restaurants‚ and then he allows himself to be saved by a stranger. This stranger then becomes a “hero” and feels responsible for saving Victor’s life
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Smoking and Nicotine Addiction Kimberly Andy Week Three Psy/355 May 13‚ 2013 Dr. Dee Strbiak‚ PsyD.‚ LPC‚ CAC III Smoking is a habit forming and in many instances very hard to stop once started. As the world around grows and increases in knowledge it is becoming more evident that smoking is dangerous not just to the smoker‚ but the people around them as well. There are many reasons that one may start the habit of smoking but are unaware of just how much the body becomes dependent
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Anna Yaun Western Cultural History Mrs. Veronica Martin 3/7/15 Choices and Consequences “Nobody ever did‚ nor ever will‚ escape the consequences of his choices.” Both Alice and Robinson Crusoe acted impulsively. Alice followed a rabbit‚ ending up falling down a dark hole. And she also ate and drank things out of pure curiosity. Robinson Crusoe disobeyed his father‚ and ended up getting captured. After this‚ he went to sea again‚ and then was stranded on an island. Alice and Robinson Crusoe both
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those critics who say that the central figure should have been a Jew‚ not a Polish woman. "In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan‚ so I had to move to Brooklyn". This is the opening line in the novel Sophie’s Choice by William Styron. In addition to being the opening line‚ it is the way we are introduced to our narrator‚ Stingo. To begin this story‚ Stingo moves into an apartment in Brooklyn after leaving his job at a publishing house called McGraw-Hill‚ and
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Drug addiction is a pathological or abnormal condition which arises due to frequent drug use. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behavior‚ the vulnerability to relapse‚ and the decreased‚ slowed ability to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli. Causes Drugs known to cause addiction include illegal drugs as well as prescription or over-the-counter drugs‚ according to the definition of the American Society of Addiction Medicine
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Tia Gardner September 21‚ 2012 Humanistic Perspective and Addiction There are several theories of addiction. All of them are imperfect. All are partial explanations. It is for this reason that it is important to be aware of and question addiction theories. One contemporary psychoanalytical view of substance abuse is that it is a defense against anxiety (Thombs D 2006). Addicts often abuse alcohol and other substances to guard against anxiety and other painful
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What is Computer Addiction? Computer addiction is a relatively new term used to describe a dependency on one’s computer. Computer addiction is not limited to personal computers (PCs). It covers video games and the Internet and has already been given a label by psychologists‚ namely Internet addiction disorder (IAD). Internet/Computer Addiction is the excessive use of the internet/computer that affects their daily life activities. This includes gaming‚ gambling‚ pornography‚ shopping‚ blogging and
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Drug addiction is not a recent problem in Bangladesh. But it has been rising. In recent years Drug Addiction has significantly increased in Bangladesh. This agent of human devastation has spread its tentacles worldwide and also in our country. Every intelligent and humane person in the world society and international organizations such as the UN and WHO are alarmed by the present rate of addiction. Nowadays nearly ten per cent of outpatients in our hospitals are cases of drug addiction involving
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The moral model states that addictions are the result of human weakness‚ and are defects of a persons character. People who don’t agree with the moral model ‚ often have scant sympathy for people with serious addictions. They believe either that a person with greater moral strength could have the will to break an addiction‚ or that the addict showed a great moral failure in the first place by starting the addiction. The moral model is applied to dependency on illegal substances‚ perhaps purely
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