...Webster defines addiction as a compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly: persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful. And one of the most menacing addictions to ruin the lives of countless people would have to be drug addiction. But is it really a disease? Addiction in my opinion is not a disease, but a choice in lifestyle. If drugs and even alcohol were to be called a disease than we must completely redefine the term “disease”. In a true disease, some part of the body is in a state of abnormal functioning, and this causes the undesirable symptoms. Like cancer for instance, it is caused by mutated cells which we point to as evidence of an abnormality. The theory of drugs being a disease is simply to soften the blow of being a drug addict or alcoholic, also the person would have no control whatsoever. Many feel that the calling drug addiction a disease weakens the drug addict and almost allows him to feel pity for himself, pity that would leads the addict to justify his addition. According to Gene Heyman, a lecturer in psychology at the Harvard Medical School addiction is not an involuntary disease but is created by personal choices. Heyman looked at different factors that can influence an addict to stop using, and pointed out there are thousands of ex-addicts who have beat their addiction. We should all...
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...TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF OPEN, DISTANCE AND eLEARNING P.O. Box 62000, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya E-mail: elearning@jkuat.ac.ke HRD 2101 Communication Skills LAST REVISION ON May 10, 2013 DocDoc Back Close ©2013 JKUAT SODeL HRD 2101 Communication Skills This presentation is intended to covered within one week. The notes, examples and exercises should be supplemented with a good textbook. Most of the exercises have solutions/answers appearing elsewhere and accessible by clicking the green Exercise tag. To move back to the same page click the same tag appearing at the end of the solution/answer. Errors and omissions in these notes are entirely the responsibility of the author who should only be contacted through the Department of Curricula & Delivery (SODeL) and suggested corrections may be e-mailed to elearning@jkuat.ac.ke. DocDoc JKUAT: Setting trends in higher Education, Research and Innovation Back Close 0 HRD 2101 Communication Skills LESSON 3 Non-verbal Communication Upon completion of this topic you should be able to: Describe non-verbal communication Highlight the forms of non-verbal communication ©2013 JKUAT SODeL 3.1. Learning Outcomes Describe the various forms of body language Explain the role of non-verbal communication DocDoc JKUAT: Setting trends in higher Education, Research and Innovation Back Close 1 ©2013 JKUAT SODeL HRD 2101 Communication Skills 3.2. Introduction The statement ’.....
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