SHOPPING ADDICTION Name: Course details: Date: Shopping addiction is a behavioral addiction often referred to as `shopoholism` and also known as oniomania or compulsive shopping. This condition was identified in the nineteenth century and marked a psychiatric disorder in the twentieth century. [1]It normally begins in the early adulthood and is experienced by teenagers in their late teens .it mostly affects females as compared to males. Like any other
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Webster’s dictionary defines addiction as a habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one’s voluntary control. The essence of all addiction is the addicts’ experience of powerlessness over a compulsive behavior‚ resulting in their lives becoming unmanageable. The addict is out of control and experiences tremendous shame‚ pain and self-loathing. The addict may wish to stop --- yet repeatedly fails to do so. In this sense‚ there are many things that can
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Drug Addiction Among Young People Many young people today get addicted to drugs – they become dependant on various types of mind-altering or stimulating medicines or illegal ones. Addiction often comes hand-in-hand with narcotic effects‚ whether they are strong or light. It is only a question of time when you get addicted. You gradually become destroyed on all the levels of your health. And this is sad. It turns out to be sadder when you come to know that typical age range of drug addicts is
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The Internet (or internet) is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private‚ public‚ academic‚ business‚ and government networks‚ of local to global scope‚ that are linked by a broad array of electronic‚ wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services‚ such as
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Addiction is still somewhat of an unsolved mystery and no one is exactly sure how a certain substance acts on the brain. A popular definition of addiction is progressing from liking the substance to needing the substance and constantly seeking it out despite any negative consequences the user may experience. There is still much research to be done in the field of addiction especially alcoholism. The mechanism alcohol utilizes is disinhibition of GABA in the brain. GABA is an inhibitory transmitter
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The Internet In our present time‚ many of us are already using internet for our daily lives. The Internet is the mechanism or matrix that connects networks around the world to each other and is generally referred to as the World Wide Web. Internet has been the most useful technology of the modern times which helps us not only in our daily lives‚ but also our personal and professional lives developments. The internet helps us achieve this in several different ways. For the students and educational
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What is Internet? The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private‚ public‚ academic‚ business‚ and government networks‚ of local to global scope‚ that are linked by a broad array of electronic‚ wireless and optical networking technologies. Brief History of the Internet The Internet originated in the late 1960s when the
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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: It’s Cause to Human Life I. Introduction All of us are experiencing different kinds of problems. Sometimes we tend to do unrightfully things just to run away from these problems. Because we can’t find of any solution to our problems‚ we are doing things that is against our wills. Some people used drugs to forget their problems. They think these would help them. They think that by using drugs they can escape from the dangers and problems of the world. They never thought of what
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can find people‚ locally known as “smackias”‚AT bus stops‚ railway stations and chemist shops …selling drugs for as low as 25 rupees..!! But before going too deep inside the topic‚ let us understand what drug addiction really is and why do people get addicted to them. Basically drug addiction is a
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