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    Shopping Addiction

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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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    Internet Addiction

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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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    Addiction And The Brain

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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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    Computer Addiction

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    symptoms can include carpal tunnel syndrome‚ dry eyes‚ migraine headaches‚ a decline in personal hygiene and back aches‚ according to Maressa Hecht‚ founder of Computer Addiction Services and a member of the Harvard Medical School. Depression has also been linked to Internet overuse by researchers at the Institute of Psychological Sciences in Leeds‚ UK. Researchers found that study participants who exhibited signs of Internet overuse engaged disproportionately than the normal population in sites

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    Opiate Addiction

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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

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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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    Drug Addiction

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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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    Tv Addiction

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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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    Drugs Addiction

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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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    Narrative on Addiction

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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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