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This paper offers answers to nine questions that address Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. The film focuses on the...

This paper explores the relationship between drug addiction and criminal activity. There is a cause and effect relationship in pl...

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of some positive and negative parts of social media use. This paper includes things such as ad...

then it should be remembered that not all smokers become addicted; some are able to quit easily and never take up the habit again....

health effectiveness to the treatment of depression and the dependence upon heroin. Depression is likely the most common malady e...

own feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The phenomenological method of gaining awareness is about "perceiving, feeling and acting" (...

substance no matter what the consequences that led societies to research the issue and develop the disease concept. What is addi...

It grows along with the addiction to the power source. Addictions are as unique as are individuals, and therefore the effects can...

simply a money making venture that serves to create a larger divide between social classes. Alexander and Roberts note that the...

should be regarded as legitimate treatments that help to wean the addicted individual from the abused substance both psychologica...

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

helps smokers to see nicotine as a drug and 43 percent of their program participants are smoke-free after a year (Hazelden Foundat...

3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses how "The Wizard of Oz" was Garland's first major step toward a life of drug addic...

(13). Elster contends that gambling addiction comes about slowly and the first step is that someone finds himself in a certain env...

affected by it. Young people are particularly susceptible to the effects of alcohol as their brains are still developing. Adolesc...

are admitted sex addicts and "shopohaulics." No one would want to outlaw shopping or sex, but of course, sex and shopping are regu...

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

and their attempts to fulfill their desires (Boeree, 1997). This leads to a lack of social interest or concern (Boeree, 1997). On...

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

for the oldest son), leaving little room for each child to reflect upon his or her own desires. Justin routinely rebelled against...

Genetic Association for Cigarette Smoking Behavior". Research in smoking addiction have revealed that along with several social fa...

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...

discipline of psychology during the next century. One of his beliefs, based on past trends, is that psychology, as a field in gene...

to throw a game. Greed is often at the crux of sports gambling. Players, even if they are doing rather well, may be lured by easy...

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

This is unfortunate, because college students are significantly more likely to have problems with gambling than older adults, and ...