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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A. Identify a Social Problem The social effects of opiate addiction are felt by those who may have never even seen more than an image of heroin. For example; “In an early study‚ for example‚ Inciardi reported that a cohort of 239 male heroin addicts from Miami committed 80‚644 criminal acts during the 12 months before being interviewed (Inciardi‚ 1979).”. (Strain and Stitzer‚ 2006) In part‚ this is due to the problems associated with the severe withdrawal symptoms that begin about
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Internet Addiction Are you preoccupied with the Internet? Do you avhieve satisfaction by spending a lot of time on Internet? Are you feel depressed or irritable when you are forced to cut down on time or stop surfing on the Internet? If your answers are right‚ you may be a victim of internet addiction. With the development and popularity of the Internet‚ it brings us a new convenient life. We depend on the Internet and regard as an indispensable tool for searching abundant information sources
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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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Greek and means "seeing far away". However‚ the more we watch it‚ the more short-sighted and narrow-minded we become. Unfortunately‚ TV is fast becoming as popular and dangerous as drugs. In this essay‚ I will outline some problems linked to TV. addiction and suggest some viable solution. Starting with the dangers‚ health is one of the biggest. To clarify‚ people who watch too much TV. frequently develop problems with their eyes and back and‚ too‚ may become obese. A further negative effect is
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Most of the people believe that the best way to help someone overcome their Drug Addiction is to forgive them‚ love them and allow them to screw over the entire family again. And lets not forget the rehabilitation‚ court costs and police that the taxpayer must foot the bill for many times. Some are far more critical of these issues and say that Drug Addiction is too readily accepted and too many people are coddled too often for it. We have recidivism rates‚ which would make anyone cringe. If we
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Celia D. Roman Instructor Corbett COM 041 11 November 2011 Essay 1 Addiction is a disease that I will battle for the rest of my life. After being sexually assaulted at the age of twelve‚ I started to self-destruct. Lack of parental support‚ less than pristine living conditions‚ and an addictive personality paved an expressway to a life of addiction. I chose to hang with undesirable people‚ and was introduced to Marijuana‚ LSD‚ Ecstasy‚ PCP‚ Cocaine‚ Heroin and eventually what became
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Addiction is a strong word. Some people would object to applying the word “addiction” when watch their favorite TV show. For instance‚ after watching a few episode of “Meet the Browns” I wanted to continue to watching more episodes. Forgetting I had other work that had to be done. Not only did it waste valuable time but it had my full attention. I wasn’t thinking about anything important. Like most episode Mr. Brown one of the main characters starts the episode in a loud raging voice drawing them
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Table of Contents Pages Title page ……………………………………………………………………………………. i Acknowledgement ………………………………………………………………………….. ii List of tables …........................................................................................................................ iii Chapter I Statement of the problem …………………………………………………………… 1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………. 1 Hypothesis …………………………………………………………………………... 1 Significance of the study ……………………………………………………………. 1 Scope and limitation
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Drug addiction‚ in recent decades‚ has become a matter of concern for every individual‚ community and nation. Mankind no doubt has been using and abusing drugs right from the very beginning‚ but in the present century drug addiction has emerged as a cancer and has brought within its fold almost all the segments of society. The technological revolution has brought about sweeping changes throughout the world and has reduced the entire world to a global village. Knowledge explosion and technological
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