7) References 14 8) Appendix – A (Pie Charts) 15 9) Appendix – B (Questionnaire) 24 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The primary goal of our research report is to assess the level of mobile phone addiction in youngsters of our nation. Another aim of our study is to determine how the mobile phone addiction affects the time‚ education‚ level of concentration and seriousness and social life of youngsters. One of the purposes of our research was also to assess the amount of money today’s youngsters spend
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Running head: CASUAL SEX ADDICTION Casual Sex Can Be an Addiction PSY420 Table of Contents Casual Sex Can it be an Addiction 3 Sexually Activity and Intamcy 3 - 4 Sexually Intercourse 4 - 5 The Additiction 5 - 7 References 8 . Casual Sex Can Be an Addiction It ’s not news to anybody these days‚ if they watch any television or glance over the covers of the magazines lining the counters at checkout in almost all grocery stores‚ that we live in a sex-saturated society where
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What is addiction? Addiction is a chronic‚ often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use‚ despite the consequences to the individual who is addicted and to those that are around him or her. Alt-hough the decision to take drugs are voluntary for most people‚ the brain changes that occur over time will challenge the addicted person’s self control and hamper his or her ability to resist taking drugs. Fortunately‚ treatments are available to help people counter their addiction’s
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Adolescence and Addiction Nelly Leenman Liberty University Adolescence and Addiction Using alcohol‚ illegal drugs and tobacco among adolescents has become very common and is therefore a serious public health problem. Though the number of adolescents who smoke tobacco has declined‚ this too remains a problem of serious concern. Alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and illegal drugs are addictive which means that the body can become dependent on them in order to function properly. “Use of alcohol as well as other
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Over 20 million Americans above the age of 12 have an addiction‚ and 90% of those with an addiction began drinking‚ smoking‚ or using illicit drugs before the age of 18. Many of these addictions are products of peer pressure and students attempting to be the life of the party. In Cole Meyers “Addiction” he shows us how the continued use of drugs can give one a short term gains to increase his or her social status; however‚ in the long term‚ addiction strips the individual of his or her identity. Cole
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these deaths are caused from prescription opioids. The two main strategies recommended by the CDC to decrease opioid abuse and addiction is to improve the accuracy of prescriptions and prevent the misuse of these prescriptions once they are given. Reducing the rate of opioid prescriptions is a critical step in preventing abuse and overdose. The vast majority of opioid addictions begin with prescription painkillers‚ which have a flourishing market currently - opioid sales have more than quadrupled since
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BBM AND SOCIAL NETWORK ADDICTION Are you constantly checking your Facebook and Twitter for updates? Do you have a large number of Facebook friends and BBM contacts but only know and communicate with a few? Does the idea of having many social network friends make you feel popular? Do you feel unsettled and anxious when you can’t check for updates or read your messages? If you’ve answered yes to some of those questions‚ you may have a social network addiction. Statistics show that teenagers spend
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Running head: ADOLESCENCE 1 Adolescence and Substance Abuse or Addiction Christina Ayres Liberty University Running head: ADOLESCENCE 2 Adolescence and Substance Abuse or Addiction Adolescents‚ or teenagers‚ use drugs (prescription and illegal) and alcohol for many of the same reasons as adults. Most notably‚ the pleasure or euphoric feeling associated with use and as an escape from the stress and pressure of a situation or of life in general. Many students have even started
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FACEBOOK ADDICTION AMONG STUDENTS * “I’ll just check facebook once before I start studying” is what the students tell themselves and they end up online for hours. Every day‚ millions of students go on a social media website. To many of them‚ social media is like a drug. There’s a euphoric high that comes from having a new notification or post‚ like the high from a snort of cocaine or smoke of marijuana. The lows of not being able to check it when they want is like the draw of an addictive drug
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new things that they have never had to deal with before‚ such as drugs. Many children do not know how to handle a situation when faced with drugs‚ which opens the possibility of bad decision making. Just one bad decision can lead to a lifetime of addiction and struggling. The use of dangerous drugs is a growing issue amongst teens in real life while also depicted in modern works of literature such as Crank and Go Ask Alice. With no prior exposure to them‚ teenagers have no clue how to deal with a
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