Like any addiction‚ internet addiction has various effects on an individual. As the connotation of the word "addiction" suggests‚ the effects are not always very good. There are effects that are general to all addictions. The addict becomes dependent on the internet‚ loses control of self to the internet‚ and discontinuing the use of internet leads to disturbances in mood and behavior. There are also effects that are particular to internet addiction. As an internet addict becomes accustomed to the
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Biology on Drug Abuse and Addiction Phillisha Baggett PS 231 G Bethune-Cookman University Ms. Vance November 3‚ 2012 Abstract This paper will discuss what drug abuse and addiction is. It also will discuss what effects that alcohol‚ marijuana‚ and heroin have on the body. Over the past couple decades drug abuse and addiction is a growing epidemic in the United States. As the years go by more and more people are leaning on drugs to make them forget what’s going on‚ for fun‚ or just
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Alcohol Addiction Laurie Evans COM/156 August 4‚ 2013 Alcohol Addiction Is alcoholism a disease of addiction? This is the question you will find answers to in the following paper. Let’s start by defining what a disease is. A disease can be defined as any harmful‚ depraved‚ or morbid condition‚ as of mind or society. Alcoholism can be defined as a disease because if one consumes more than the recommended amount you can have memory loss‚ become violent‚ and in some cases become depraved
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VIDEO GAME ADDICTION After playing video games for 50 hours‚ a man died in an Internet cafe in South Korea (Khazan). China has set up a system in order to control the online video gaming hours. This is the vital step the country has taken to prevent the online gamers from getting addicted by limiting the hours of online video gaming (Koo). Thailand‚ on the other hand‚ has banned a very popular game called Grand Theft Auto 4 after a crime was committed in a similar fashion as shown in the game
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Behavior Therapy‚ 3‚ 64-71. Glidden-Tracey‚ C. E. (2005). Counseling and Therapy with Clients Who Abuse Alcohol or Other Drugs: An Integrative Approach. Mahwah‚ NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Glidden-Tracey‚ C. (2007). Might as well face it‚ there’s addiction among your clients: Assessing for substance abuse. ContinuingEdCourses.Net.
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Internet Addiction Disorder Computer and the Internet become useful tools in every day life. People are able to work on-line‚ chat‚ play games‚ or do their businesses. Although Internet brings many advantages it also carry a variety of dangers‚ including the possibility of addiction. Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) is a new kind of addiction‚ which manifests itself in an excessive computer use that usually collides with person’s daily life. The fundamental problem of IAD is not a computer
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Students and Video Game Addiction December 13‚ 2012 By Anonymous Until the academic warning letter from my son’s college arrived home last December 23rd following his fall freshman term‚ he assured us that he was getting Bs in his classes. Confronted with this letter‚ he broke down in tears‚ admitted that he spent most of the last half of the semester playing an online computer game‚ and didn’t attend the final weeks of classes nor even sit for his exams. An activity that started out in high
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ages‚ and even some adults and the students. With permanent development of computer technology the quality of people using computer either for working purposes or entertainment purposes is increasing speedily. There are many things that causes addiction to computer‚ one reason being‚ is that most of the students just need something to occupy their time and these games and browsing internet do that for countless hours. Some students use computer to escape their reality which can include school‚ work
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appealing to children and adolescents‚ these individuals may be more at risks than other groups of developing gaming addiction. Methods: Given these potential concerns‚ a literature review was undertaken in order to present the classification basis of online gaming addiction using official mental disorder frameworks‚ to identify empirical studies that a session online gaming addiction in children adolescents‚ and to present and evaluate the findings against the background of related and established
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Video Games: A Source of Benefits or Addiction? Super Mario Brothers‚ Sonic the Hedgehog‚ and Street Fighter are familiar names to nearly all of us. They are all best selling games of major video game consoles. Over 9.8 billion dollars were spent on video games in the United States during 2001 alone‚ and video game consoles are present in 36 million homes in the United States (1). With the increasing amount of time that people are spending on video games‚ one is left to wonder what effects video
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