A tell tale sign is when friends and family begin to notice and comment on their apparent excessive spending‚ the Compulsive Shopper will start to hide their purchases‚ a typical denial technique of the addict. Compulsive Shopping like any addiction has its bad side effects and the Shopaholic may run into financial problems as they can’t pay their credit card bills‚ their credit rating can suffer and they may run into legal problems. They sometimes attempt to hide the problems by taking an
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KELLY SPENCER Professor Kincaid IAW 25 February 2014 My Sisters Addiction I would like to start by telling you about my relationship that I had with my sister who is addict to drugs. She was my best friend. We did just about everything together. For example‚ get our nails done‚ go to parties‚ and joke around and have a good time like sisters do. She has a great personality‚ very outspoken‚ and outgoing. Just a beautiful person in her own way. I can’t believe how close we were at
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Alicia Sorondo English 105 10:00 a.m. There are so many reasons why people turn to drugs and become addicted. In my opinion drug addiction stems from two sources your environment and how you see yourself. Being raised in a drug environment you have accessibility and peer pressure‚ loneliness causes low self-esteem and depression‚ basic immaturity causes boredom and experimentation. These are all factors of why people become drug addicts. If you were raised in a drug environment then it is
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Heroin Addiction in Utah: Understanding the Problem Heroin is a powerful illegal opiate drug. Some opiates have legitimate medical uses for surgery and pain management. However‚ all opiates are highly-addictive. According to the National Center for Health‚ 80% of heroin users first started their addiction by misusing prescription pain medication. After a doctor stops prescribing the pills‚ someone with an addiction to opiates may begin buying prescription pills on the street. Once they run out of
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Parents who suffer with alcohol addiction can disrupt a family’s life and cause harmful effects that can last life long time. The effects that are experienced by the members of a family may be different from one to another. Children of alcoholic parents are defined as those who grow up in a home with at least one alcoholic parent (About.com‚ 2008). According to Berger (1993)‚ most children with alcoholic parents have many common symptoms such as low self-esteem‚ loneliness‚ guilt‚ feelings of helplessness
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treatment was at the least brutal punishment. “Until research showed that addiction was a treatable disease of the brain‚ many addicts were also given prison sentences or shut away in asylums because it was assumed that they were permanently lacking in moral or mental substance”( The Evolution of Addiction Treatment‚ 2012). Imprisonment had the effect of detoxification but no understanding of the physical components of addiction. Many thought addicts deserved the pain they suffered going through detox
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game addiction sometimes disagree on the proportion of children and teenagers addicted to computer games. However‚ the majority of studies suggest that approximately 5 to 10% of youth who play computer games become addicted. Compared to other psychological difficulties (such as depression and anxiety)‚ teenage computer game addiction is obviously a relatively new problem faced by families. As such‚ parents may lack accurate and/or helpful information on the signs of computer game addiction‚ the risk
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Facebook Addiction: Symptoms and Treatment MySpace‚ Twitter‚ YouTube‚ Tumblr and Facebook are some social-networking sites which are visited by thousands of people every day. Those websites can show people information related to important personalities‚ such as celebrities‚ politicians‚ and businesses.Also‚ information can be found about online friends‚ classmates and old friends. Nevertheless‚ according to Marketing Charts‚ one of those social-networking sites is considered the most visited by
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susceptible to active addiction. This sometimes happens when a person is prescribed pain pills after surgery or for pain management or a person decides to experiment with heroin‚ and the obsessions/compulsions of addiction raise their monstrous heads without warning. There is no pre-emptive strategy for this. So‚ sometimes people put themselves in a dangerous situation and sometimes they are blindsided. A person never deliberately chooses to become addicted. Chemical addiction is rooted in the built-in
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that it causes to the body. Caplan‚ Joseph; Kish‚ Stephen‚ CMAJ: (Sept.2008). Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction. This is an article that I found in the university library. It is a story that was written in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The story describes how a father dealt with his son’s meth addiction. It also helps you to understand how to cope when a loved one or someone special to you is addicted to meth.
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