believe that marijuana should be illegalized. However, they fail to know its many long term side effects. In the long run marijuana usage has a very high effect on the person’s body. Also, it’s known for a fact that marijuana has a high rate for addiction. Some people also believe that marijuana is accepted as medical use; however this is not true. In my eyes, marijuana is illegal for extremely powerful reasons, and it should stay that way. Marijuana usage had a bad effect on one’s body. When people
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| History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare system | | | Kristy Kobzeff | 5/10/2011 | | Rosina M. Becerra, Ward Thomas, Paul M. Ong. (2001). Latino and African American Fathers: Perceptions of Fatherhood And Child support. Haworth Press, Inc. In this article on Non-custodial Fathers, or (NFC’s) The authors describe child welfare and child support being one of the most important parts of helping the young population of new mothers get off of welfare and other state
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Discuss psychological explanations of two or more types of addiction. (9+16 marks) Addiction to smoking occurs when a smoker has developed an uncontrollable dependency on cigarettes so that they find it almost impossible to stop smoking. A gambling addiction is usually termed pathological gambling, which indicates a progressive addiction characterised by increasing preoccupation with gambling and a loss of control over their gambling behaviour. Experimenting with smoking usually occurs during
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Lapse to drink or not In reading this article about early lapse to drinking and smoking among individuals I learned valuable information. Although there wasn’t as much psychological definition or terms explained in this articles; I felt that the two authors did an excellent job at portraying the reason for when, why, and how people who smoked and drank lapsed or relapsed according to different situations. In the beginning of the article the authors talk about how challenging concurrent treatment
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moking tobacco is both a physical addiction and a psychological habit. The nicotine from cigarettes provides a temporary, and addictive, high. Eliminating that regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Because of nicotine’s “feel good” effect on the brain, you may also have become accustomed to smoking as a way of coping with stress, depression, anxiety, or even boredom. At the same time, the act of smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual
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writer of Internet Addiction, Greg Beato intended on making his audience aware of how scary society is becoming with the strenuous need of internet and technology. Mr. Beato does a great job of pointing out several statistics, research, and even gives brief short stories that are funny, ridiculous, and also very sad that helps him accomplish catching the reader’s attention if not scaring them on how much we are becoming addicted to the internet. Mr. Beato also brings up addiction to gaming quite often
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What is Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD)? What "Internet addiction disorder" (IAD) is still difficult to define at this time. Much of the original research was based upon the weakest type of research methodology, namely exploratory surveys with no clear hypothesis or rationale backing them. Coming from an atheoretical approach has some benefits, but also is not typically recognized as being a strong way to approach a new disorder. More recent research has expanded upon the original surveys and
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Alcoholism is a prominent substance abuse issue in Western society. The treatment method of controlled drinking as opposed to abstinence is a continuing cause of controversy in alcohol research to this day. The US is different from Europe in its acceptance of controlled drinking as a goal of treatment: “in the US alcohol dependence is typically depicted as a ‘recurring disease’ and the ‘successful abstainer’ as a ‘recovering’ though never ‘recovered’ alcoholic” (Coldwell, 2005). Depending on the
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Social Media Addiction Distracts Drivers Noelyne Paet Chamberlain College of Nursing Social Media Addiction Distracts Drivers PR Newswire (2015) reported Abby Slatten, 20-years-old, was allegedly speeding at 85 miles per hour (mph) while scrolling through pictures on her Facebook account via smartphone. Tragically, Slatten plowed into another car that killed another driver who was at the elderly age of 89-years-old. The elderly victim could have been someones parent, friend, or sibling
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Alexus Fuller CRN: 21556 English 1101 March 6, 2016 Women Then and Now “Lucy I’m home,” the famous saying from the famous 1950s sitcom, “I Love Lucy” fully distinguished a vast difference between women in sitcoms then and now. Women in the 1950s held on to the traditional, stereotypical housewife title, one who only tended to their husband children and household duties. Women in contemporary sitcoms, however, did not hold on to those traditional values that were viewed in the 1950s. For example
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