Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease which causes obsessive drug seeking and use even though they’re aware of the damage it causes to their family and themselves. The drug seeking becomes compulsive mainly by the effect the prolonged drug use has on behavior and the brain. Drugs have a huge effect on the human brain. They alter they way you think and act. The chemicals in drugs enter your communication system in the brain and change or disrupt the way your brain can send‚ receive
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Marijuana Addiction Jerry Tibbs Liberty University Online Abstract Addiction is a serious problem in the world today and marijuana addiction is one of those problems that many people nationwide face in their daily lives. Part of the problem lies in whether those substance users actually believe addiction is possible with marijuana. What can be seen though‚ by the average person‚ is that marijuana can be addictive and cause addictive behavior in users. These addictive behaviors have negative effects
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Aubrey Christensen March 12‚ 2014 Katherine Kinkel Reading Response Strike Sparks Overall‚ as a text‚ I really appreciate Sharon Olds Strike Sparks. I think that it is wonderful that someone‚ especially a woman‚ can write about such vulgar things in a very poetic way. Although I did find some of the poems to be very disturbing‚ I was overall shocked at how moving most of the poems are. In Olds’ poem The Girl we hear the story of a rape victim‚ not only was she assaulted‚ and left for
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get.” Explain why your friend’s comment illustrates his need for cognitive therapy. What procedures would a cognitive therapist use to help your friend overcome his negative feelings? Cognitive behavioral therapy is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps patients understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors. This type of treatment is used to treat a wide range of disorders which include phobias‚ addiction‚ depression and anxiety. This type of treatment is generally
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of sugar addiction in rats for years. Until now‚ the rats under study have met two of the three elements of addiction. They have demonstrated a behavioral pattern of increased intake and then showed signs of withdrawal. His current experiments captured craving and relapse to complete the picture. "If bingeing on sugar is really a form of addiction‚ there should be long-lasting effects in the brains of sugar addicts‚" Hoebel said. "Craving and relapse are critical components of addiction‚ and we have
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Addiction is a dependence on a substance in which the affected individual feels powerless to stop. Millions of Americans have addictions to drugs‚ alcohol‚ nicotine‚ and even to behaviors such as compulsive gambling and shopping. Our recent studies suggest that millions of Americans are addicted to food‚ as well. An average American is bombarded daily with random propaganda to try to sell what some would consider "perfection". Most American citizens try to emulate those fictional characters in celebrity
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Drug Addiction The topic that caught my attention when I was reading my choices was “Drug Addiction”. Drug addiction is something that should not be taken lightly by anyone who has a family member or friend with this issue. We often wonder how and what make people turn into being a drug addict. “Drug addiction is rooted in long-term adaptations within the brain that promotes escalating drug use‚ difficulty quitting‚ and relapse—all despite the awareness of negative consequences.” With that being
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Research Proposal on Youth towards drug addiction. CONTENTS Abstract ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….. 4-6 Problem background…………………………………………………………………….. 7 Aims and objectives………………………………………………………………………. 7-8 Problem statement……………………………………………………………………….. 8 Research questions……………………………………………………………………….. 8-9 Hypothesis……………………………………………………………………………………. 9 Research objectives………………………………………………………………………. 9-10 Significance of the study………………………………………………………………
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How Computer Addiction Works Obsessively checking e-mail. Playing online games for 12 hours or more at a time. Placing more value on chat-room friends than real friends. Neglecting family‚ work and even personal health and hygiene. These are all symptoms of a new form of addictionthat has surfaced only in recent years: computer addiction. Creating a single definition for computer addiction is difficult because the term actually covers a wide spectrum of addictions. Few people are literally addicted
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teens and Internet addiction Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a theorized disorder originally made as a satirical hoax by Ivan Goldberg‚ M.D.‚ in 1995. He took pathological gambling as diagnosed by the DSM-IV as his model for the spoofed description. Although IAD was meant to be a hoax‚ it is promoted as a real condition by some supporters. Supporters often divide IAD into subtypes by activity‚ such as pornography‚ overwhelming and immoderate gaming‚ inappropriate involvement in online social
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