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    Drug Addiction

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    Drug addiction Alex closed the bathroom stall boor behind him and locked it. He unzipped his book bag and scrambled trough it‚ searching for his escape from life. His heart was beating faster with every second that passed by. His palms were sweating and his mouth was dry. He kept imagining the smoothness of alcohol flowing down his throat. He finally felt the coldness of the bottle at the bottom of the bag. He suddenly felt a sense of warmth‚ as if he was at home. He felt at ease

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    Technology Addiction

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    Technology Addiction “Let’s get HIGH on TECH” In one country‚ thousands of people salivating at the mouth await anxiously in line. Some have not eaten in days‚ have forsaken their families and are tired and listless as they wish to meet their daily need. Disappointment awaits their arrival at home‚ if they were to return home empty handed. Is this some African country where people await in line for rations to feed themselves or their family? Sadly‚ they await the arrival of a new version of technology

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    Drugs & Addiction

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    Drugs and Addiction Carl Jung‚ a Swiss psychiatrist once said: “Every form of addiction is bad‚ no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol‚ morphine or idealism.” I agree with what he said. It’s true; addiction is not only bad‚ it can be dangerous! Do you know how many people who take drugs die each year? According to WHO (World Health Organization)‚ 2‚000 Americans die each year from using heroin‚ in England‚ 5‚000. 2‚500 Americans die each year from using cocaine. Alcohol kills 80‚000 Americans

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    Drug Addiction

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    century‚ drug addiction has become the major problem in the world. Drugs‚ are usually used in medical purpose such as painkiller‚ because of human in abusing drugs‚ drugs has been restrict as it is danger to human health and it will caused addiction. The reasons that people often taking drugs is because that drugs make them feel good‚ because ‘drug act directly on the limbic‚ or “pleasure center” in the brain’ (people on drugs 2008). The main causes that lead a human to become drug addiction are peer

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    Drug addiction

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    Drug Addiction Drug is a substance that causes addiction‚ and it’s prohibits to treaded or grown or manufactured it only for some purposes prescribed by law. Drug addiction is one of the major problems In society. The effects of this disease are really serious. Many people get used to have drugs. Therefore‚ they get easily addicted to it and that is the problem also ’my survey showed that only 60 % of the class who ever used drugs. There are three main effects of drug

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    drug addiction

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    professional expertise‚ generational wisdom‚ and individual commitment to combat the drug problem as they strive together toward a healthier world.  Communities can take part in the effort to put a stop to drug abuse by organizing groups of prevention experts and community volunteers whose mission is to help assure a healthier and safer world through drug prevention efforts by providing statistics and accurate information on the abuse of substances Over the past few decades‚ we as the people have come

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    Gambling Addiction

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    Wikipedia‚ a behavioral addiction is “a form of addiction that involves a compulsion to engage in a rewarding non-drug-related behavior – sometimes called a natural reward – despite any negative consequences to the person’s physical‚ mental‚ social or financial well-being.” There are many different forms of behavioral addictions‚ but one of the most common is the addiction of gambling. Gambling occurs when one plays games of chance for money‚ or take a bet. Gambling addictions can effect ones personal

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    Sugar Is an Addiction

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    concerns lead scientist to perform test to study the changes around the globe. http://cip.cornell.edu/dns.gfs/1200428197 Now if review one major aspect that is being under discussion by the people is the “sugar controversy “declaring sugar as an addiction like any other drug heroine‚ morphine or codeine. http://jn.nutrition.org/content/139/3/623. In early times sugar was taken as a pleasure of life and with passage of time it became a need for people and dependency on the product increased making

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    Marijuana Addiction

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    The social issue I will be talking about is marijuana addiction. Nowadays marijuana usage is very common throughout the United States because of its legalization in some states. It is also very common throughout teens and is very likely for them and many others to become addicted. In my opinion I believe marijuana is addictive because I went to school with many people who had tried it one time and suddenly became addicted and started changing‚ drastically. It began to affect their social life because

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    Facebook Addiction

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    While Facebook addiction disorder or Facebook addiction are not medically accepted terms‚ the actuality of addictive behavior on Facebook is a mounting concern for scores of Facebook users‚ and one that psychoanalysts are seeing more regularly in their patients. According to Fenichel‚ if you have found that sharing‚ connecting and learning through Facebook has replaced all avenues of learning and communicating and in your life‚ it is a possibility that you have Facebook addiction Disorder. There

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