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    Drug Addiction

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    Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease which causes obsessive drug seeking and use even though they’re aware of the damage it causes to their family and themselves. The drug seeking becomes compulsive mainly by the effect the prolonged drug use has on behavior and the brain. Drugs have a huge effect on the human brain. They alter they way you think and act. The chemicals in drugs enter your communication system in the brain and change or disrupt the way your brain can send‚ receive

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    Drug Addiction

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    DRUG ADDICTION DRUG: A chemical substance that alters the function of one or more body organs or the process of a disease. Drugs include prescribed medicines over the counter remedies and various other substances such as alcohol‚ tobacco and drugs of abuse that are used for non-medical purposes. Drugs are substances other than food that affect the way your mind and body works (Al Robertson et al). DRUG ABUSE Drug abuse is definable mainly in terms of societal disapproval. It may involve

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    Addiction and the media

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    Addiction and the media Do you think that the media plays a role in substance abuse in adolescents and in adults? The attitude towards drug and alcohol abuse has changed dramatically throughout history. Stefan Hall analyzes the way addiction has been dramatized and how the attitude towards drugs have gradually changed from stark warnings about the dangers to satire and slapstick. (Hall) Fade in‚ Fade out: addiction Recovery‚ in American film. The media has used countless advertising

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    Nicotine addiction

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    Ę Nicotine Addiction Nicotine addiction. I am sure that everyone heard about it or had contact with addicted person. Nicotine addiction is one of the biggest problems of modern society. According to the studies nowadays there are about 1.3 billion smokers in the world. According to the scientists is: 1000x more potent than alcohol more than 5 x stronger than cocaine or morphine What does it mean for us? Well basically is one of the most addictive substances in the world. In other words if

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    Game Addiction

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    De La Salle University – Dasmariñas College of Science and Computer Studies Computer Science Department Game Addiction Submitted to: Ms. Gina Tan-Sanfilip Submitted by: Chelsea Ann Montilla Brandon Kyle Davey Ricci Zerrudo Julian Robert July 15‚ 2013 CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Introduction In recent years‚ several studies have demonstrated that at least a small group of gamers has trouble controlling their online video game playing. Excessive amounts of time

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    TV addiction

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    2014 TV Addiction Quite a few people jokingly say that they have a friend or family relative who is addicted to television. What they may not realize is it may in fact be true. In Marie Winn’s “The Plug-In Drug”‚ she implies that television addiction is much like a drug or drinking problem‚ and is difficult to stop. Winn writes her essay in a very simplistic manner‚ and focuses on the destructiveness of an addiction; she illustrates and compares the destructiveness of addiction to excessive

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    Sexual Addiction

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    6% to 8% of Americans suffer from sexual addiction‚ according to the National Council on Sexual Addiction Compulsivity. Its effects are as destructive as those of chemical addictions. Socially‚ addicts’ lives and the lives of those close to them are affected‚ their performance on the job might suffer‚ they might even endanger their families’ health. How to recognize the signs of sexual addiction? There are 3 characteristics that pinpoint and addictive sexual behavior:  Compulsivity. The person

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    Children Of Addiction

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    should be ready to handle the fears that the person struggling with addiction may go through issues physically. They could injure themselves‚ undergo unforeseen mood swings‚ and have multiple complications with the law‚ lie‚ and face the aftermath of excessive addiction that could result in disease or death. Those that undergo severe suffering include children of the addicts themselves‚ as they are directly exposed to the changing addiction degrees (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015). Choice

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    Intergenerational Patterns of Addiction Jodi Stillman Genograms can be very enlightening for families. Many patterns of multigenerational issues can be exposed and explored by beginning with a genogram. There are patterns of medical issues that can be brought to light and give a family a chance to make healthier choices in an effort to stave off the effects of genetic predispositions to certain illnesses. The same can be said for patterns of addictions across multiple generations of the family

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    dota addiction

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    Sign In | Sign Up StudyMode - Premium and Free Essays‚ Term Papers & Book Notes Essays Book Notes AP Notes Citation Generator More Dota Addiction Essays and Term Papers Search Advanced Search Documents 21 - 40 of 907 A Case Study on the Effects of Playing Dota CHAPTER I The Problem and its Background Introduction There are many students and even some young professional are addicted to Defense of the Ancients or DotA. This is a kind of computer games that can be played by many players

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