CHEM 1660 BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY Part III Addiction Dr. Susan Y. LIANG Email: ytliang@hkbu.edu.hk Office: FSC 702B Opium – Catholicon or Toxin • Evidence suggests that more than 5‚000 years ago the properties of opium were known in the Euphrates River (幼发拉底河) delta. • Around 330 B. C.‚ Alexander the Great took opium to Persia and India‚ from where cultivation slowly spread eastward and reached China in about the 7th century (唐朝). 13th century‚ India The opium poppy
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The awareness of addictions is growing at an alarming rate in the United States. Many health care professionals are working overtime in treating people with disabling addictions. But within the mental health care profession‚ many are divided as to the arising issue and cause of addiction. Deaths caused by drug overdoses have risen drastically over the pass decade. Many health care and drug treatment professionals are working overtime in treating people with disabling addictions. Within the mental
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Llamas which are well-socialized and trained to halter and lead after weaning are very friendly and pleasant to be around. They are extremely curious and most will approach people easily. However‚ llamas that are bottle-fed or over-socialized and over-handled as youngsters will become extremely difficult to handle when mature‚ when they will begin to treat humans as they treat each other‚ which is characterized by bouts of spitting‚ kicking and neck wrestling. Anyone having to bottle-feed a cria
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Addiction We are going to talk about addiction and what it means. There are a couple text book definitions to what this means. Addiction in one form or another is common to most people. Addiction in the dictionary says‚ “The quality or state of being addicted.” With that being the case‚ look at what addicted means. Addicted also means to devote or surrender to something habitually or obsessively. Most of the time we hear this word is because we associate it with drugs. When most people think of
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view regarding abuse/addiction is superficial and during this time I think it’s merely a wrong decision. But as I grew and exposed to this through peers‚ school and church teachings I saw that there are a lot of factors to consider why an individual resort to drug and/or alcohol abuse/addiction. Emotional factors: I learned this in-depth during my college life (a couple of years ago) when I was introduced to Maslow’s pyramid of human needs. There is a high risk for addiction for people who have
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people who would say addiction is not a disease but a choice. Those people are looking at it in an object manner without even scrapping the surface of the true issue. Daniel Akst‚ a writer from New York’s Hudson Valley‚ wrote that‚ “Addiction is voluntary rather than compulsory” (Akst). While indeed the first act of engaging in drug use is voluntary the spiraling downward effect is caused by addiction taking over a person’s brain. Mr. Netherton implies in this statement‚ "Addiction is a crutch word that
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Dublin Institute of Technology ARROW@DIT Conference Papers School of Management 2012-11-19 SERIOUS GAMING LEARNING: SUPPLY CHAIN MULTI-AGENT WEB-BASED SIMULATION GAME Ayman Tobail Dublin Institute of Technology John Crowe Dublin Institute of Technology‚ john.crowe@dit.ie Amr Arisha Dublin Institute of Technology Follow this and additional works at: http://arrow.dit.ie/buschmancon Part of the Business Administration‚ Management‚ and Operations Commons‚ and the Curriculum and
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"Why‚ it really is not that big of a deal?" and think that it is just a small poker game or a little bet over a sporting event. There are so many more aspects to gambling than just the little games and bets. That is just a fraction of all of the problems and crime it can be connected to. Now there are also great perks to having some forms of gambling‚ such as lotteries. The lotteries help out by contributing to government programs such as education‚ military‚ etc. To help people understand gambling
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Title of the Study: Computer addiction when it comes to online games Purpose of the Study: To provide additional information of the disadvantages if one is addicted to computer games. To be a reference of one of those future researchers and also can be used by many of the students. The purpose of study is to: 1. Identify the effects of computer addiction. 2. Interview the young people in how they engaged with the computer games. 3. Give the examples of the games where the teenagers
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used by almost everybody especially by young people. Sometimes using internet too much may cause a serious problem named “internet addiction”‚ which affects mostly children. Internet addiction is a serious problem affecting especially children in two possible ways. Firstly addiction to internet influences children negatively regarding their socialisation. Children are affected by internet addiction because it takes too much time. For example‚ children who spend too much time with computer can not
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