IS ADDICTION A DISEASE? Drug agencies in the world have struggled for legitimacy in the field of medicine addiction. Drug abuse has become a common norm in the society today. Drug addiction is a chronic brain disease that causes uncontrollable drug seeking and use despite its negative consequences on the addict. Although the decision to take drugs is voluntary for many individuals‚ the brain changes that over a period of time. It hampers a person’s ability to resist his/her impulses to take drugs;
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Facebook Faces Up Case Analysis December 15‚ 2009 Case 3 Background and overview Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Harvard undergrad students as an alternative to a student directory or what they are use to at Harvard. This site got immediate popularity among students‚ then spread like wildfire as they have over three fifty million register users and six billion hits a month. Facebook is a real business that brings in over one seven hundred million dollars in revenue
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Understanding Addiction Limestone College Abstract As early as 1939 with the publication of the first edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous the medical community was aware that addiction was more than a moral shortcoming. In the first addition of the book in the chapter The Doctor’s Opinion‚ Dr. William Silkworth (1939) wrote the following‚ “We believe‚ and so suggested a few years ago‚ that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the
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INTRODUTION Drug addiction is the chronic disease affecting the brain‚ and just everyone is different. Drug affect different ways. One person can take and abuse drugs‚ yet never become addicted‚ while another merely has one experience and is immediately hooked. Addiction explain and is charactererized by a person having to used the drugs repeatedly‚ regardless of the damage it does to their health‚ family career‚ and their rrelationshipwith friends and the community. Addiction is not limited to
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gaming and internet addiction is a new community problem. A number of studies have been done to address these problems‚ but there is not a reliable treatment in which clinicians can rely on to diagnose and treat them. Although there is not a valid empirical study that supports the treatment of video game and internet addition‚ some professionals have created useful assessment tools and treatments to address these types of disorders. Online video game addiction research has mostly been focused
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Running Header: Children on Facebook Children on Facebook EN3220 February 27‚ 2013 What is the problem? Bullying‚ Stalking‚ Unrealistic expectations‚ Skewed Realities‚ and Misunderstandings these are the problems that plague Social Networking Sites. These problems have always existed in the world‚ but now only have recently appeared in social networking sites. Early iterations of social networking sites appeared in the mid to late 90’s sites like Gecocites and Tripod‚ and Theglobe allowed
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The Ethics of Facebook The creation of social media websites as a gateway to advertising‚ playing games‚ and meeting people all over the world sounded like an awesome tool for the modern world; but with the good comes the bad. When anybody conducts a search for social media the first website one will find is Facebook. Facebook is by far the most popular social media outlet for people all over the world. For people aged 13 and above‚ as long as you have a valid e-mail address signing up can by
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Method and Theory in Psychology October 8‚ 2013 Romantic Jealousy and Facebook Usage The use of Facebook‚ a popular social network‚ can have a significant influence in the development of romantic jealousy. Facebook jealousy can occur when someone feels threatened after viewing their partner interacting online with a superior potential mate‚ which could possibly lead to a daily surveillance of their partner’s activity on Facebook. A person with anxious-attachment could be described as having low self-esteem
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The American Psychiatric Association refers to problem gambling as pathological gambling. There are generally speaking two different types of problem gamblers; action problem gamblers and escape problem gamblers. Gambling addiction is just as valid of an illness as addiction to alcohol or drugs. Its prevalence is linked directly to the ease of access of gambling in our society. However‚ just like drugs and alcohol‚ only a small percentage of the population is prone to this illness. Gambling addicts
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______________________________________________________________ The Facebook Influence Name of pupil: Zhang Ke Wei School: Catholic High School (Primary) Class: 5 Gentleness Teacher-supervisor: Mdm Munawarrah ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Background: My interest in Facebook began after I read the book‚ The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick published in 2010. In his book‚ David Kirkpatrick describes the practicality of Facebook and how its popularity
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