Why Is Facebook Addictive? Twenty Reasons For Facebook Addiction By Dr. Brent Conrad Clinical Psychologist for TechAddiction As explained in a previous article in this series‚ Facebook Addiction is not a recognized clinical disorder. Hundreds of millions of people use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family‚ plan events‚ receive news‚ and play games. For most‚ Facebook is a useful and enjoyable way of interacting with others online. However‚ some users claim
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Drug Addiction Drug abuse is an increasing epidemic in today’s society. There are so many types of drugs being abused today‚ both legal and illegal. These drugs affect the human body in many different ways. Drug abuse can lead to addiction. “Drug addiction involves the repeated and excessive use of a drug to produce pleasure or escape reality despite its destructive effects” (“Environmental Health Perspectives‚” 2005). Drug addicts believe that drugs are necessary for them to have a feeling
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charitable bingo‚ and pari-mutuel gambling‚ such as horse and dog track racing. Popular forms of illegal gambling‚ such as offtrack betting‚ back room casino games‚ and numbers‚ were associated with organized crime and were treated as vice crimes by law enforcement institutions. Then‚ beginning in 1964‚ gambling expanded greatly after New Hampshire initiated the first modern state lottery‚ signifying a change in traditional social and moral barriers. As of this writing‚ some form of gambling is legal
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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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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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UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE COSTA RICA. SEDE DE GUÁPILES. ELOCUTION AND COMPOSITION II. WRITTEN REPORT. INTERNET ADDICTION. TEACHER´S NAME: ROGER A. FRANCIS ALVARADO. STUDENT´S NAMES: JOSELYN ARLETT BUSTOS VARGAS. ARMANDO BELLO. SATURDAY‚ NOVEMBER 29TH‚ 2014. INDEX Content Page Abstract………………………………………………………………………………... Introduction……………………….…………………………………………………... Terminal and Enabling Objectives…………………………………………………………............................. Theoretical Framework…………………………………………………………
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Chapter I Problem and its background Introduction In present times ‚ computer gaming has been popular mostly within the students’ societies worldwide. Like a virus ‚ excessive gaming has also been contagious within the society ‚ creating an indestructible and unstoppable problem concerning its effects. In local concept ‚ students and non-students here in the Philippines has been massively influenced with the habit of computer gaming even it sometimes affects their daily productive activities such
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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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