Does Cell Phone Addiction Exist? Miriam Smith Towson University Abstract As of 2012‚ almost everybody owns some form of technological device. These devices are accessible to all types of people‚ there is no discrimination. It has become more popular over the years through the expansion of smartphones. Cameras‚ music‚ social networking apps and practically anything you can imagine have become accessible at anytime‚ anywhere. With one tap‚ you can update your status‚ send a tweet‚ and send a picture
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Fast Food is Our New Addiction Obesity is increasing rapidly because of the fast food. Showing and telling people how unhealthy to eat the fast food is extremely hard because it is now the popular culture for the societies those are dominated by the fast food industries. High profit and low cost is the primary reason why there are many Burger Kings and McDonald’s in the world (Kenway‚ “Junk food: The New Tobacco”). Yet some readers may challenge my view by insisting that the fast food industries
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Projects Student Works 4-1-2012 Computer Game Addiction and Emotional Dependence Amy W. Poon Trinity College‚ amypoonthesis@gmail.com Recommended Citation Poon‚ Amy W.‚ "Computer Game Addiction and Emotional Dependence". Senior Theses‚ Trinity College‚ Hartford‚ CT 2012. Trinity College Digital Repository‚ http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/253 Running Head: COMPUTER GAME ADDICTION Poon 1 Computer Game Addiction and Emotional Dependence Amy Poon Trinity College Fall
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Online Gaming With the rising popularity of online gaming‚ there have been studies that point to these games being very addictive‚ therefore gamers invest a huge amount of time playing. “The negative impact of Internet use on adolescents has received much popular attention and has also become a popular research topic”(Wen-Bin‚Chiou). When people focus on the negative elements of a subject‚ they ignore the positive
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Drug addiction in Pakistan Pakistan is today notorious for many things‚ but in the last 20 years‚ drug production and addiction has increasingly become just one of them. The issue of drug addiction is often overshadowed by the many of the country’s other human development problems‚ such as poverty‚ illiteracy and lack of basic health care. But the fact is‚ drug abuse is rapidly growing in Pakistan and in South Asia in general. While Bangladesh‚ India‚ Nepal and Maldives all suffer from this‚ Pakistan
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world without modern technology‚ as world that is stuck in the past. Technology has made life easier or has it? The dependency of people to technology can be seen during brown out or power failure in a certain place. During brown outs or black outs‚ especially here in the Philippines‚ people usually panic‚ especially the youth. Some may not know it but people can’t seem to cope up without their cell phones (as it soon losses battery) or their computers. It shows signs of addiction. For many people‚
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Addiction Has America become a nation full of addicts? In today’s current generation everyone’s addicted‚ from the abuse of prescription medication to the use of social media. The human brain is susceptible to addiction very easily. Addiction is what drives people to make decisions‚ it alters a person’s behavior based on a developed dependence to a certain substance or thing. Nothing is worse on a country’s’ society than a people who’ve growingly become reliant. America as a whole needs to work
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further our understanding of addiction by recognising and hopefully you will be able to identify with the physical/psychological characteristics of addiction. In addition recognise the progression of addiction‚ the importance of an abstinence-based recovery and alternative treatments to support recovery success. Finally the important key factors of addictions I want you to always remember. So let’s get started: Physical Symptoms of Addiction Physical symptoms of addiction are the result of the user’s
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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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medicalnewstoday.com/info/addiction/what-causes-addiction.php NIDA. (2011‚ November). Drug facts:understanding drug abuse and addiction [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/understanding-drug-abuse-addiction Bibliography Nordqvist‚ C. (2009‚ march 09). Medical news today. Retrieved from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/addiction/what-causes-addiction.php NIDA. (2011‚ November). Drug facts:understanding drug abuse and addiction [Web log message]. Retrieved
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