these understandings on addiction to social care practice. The word “addict” originates from Roman law where an individual is compelled to his or her creditor place of payment of debt (Ross et al‚ 2010). As Dunnington states that addiction is defined a number of different ways. Addiction is defined as a “brain disease” personifies by “compulsive use of drugs” this definition comes from the Institute of Medicine (2011). The National Institute on Drug Abuse defines addiction as a “chronic‚ relapsing
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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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The Amazing World of Laughter & It’s super Healing Power A Book Review Presented to PROFESSOR ESPIE CHINEL APARIS Managing Director UM Fitness & Wellness Centre In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in PE 2 Code #: 7275 1st term‚ 2nd semester School Year: 2012-2013 Permit #: 2485LL BY: ROGIE P. JACINTO January 19‚ 2013 Introduction: Laughing is important to all people because Laughing makes stress release and you feels happy‚ relaxes and feels good. Laughing
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............................................................................... iii Chapter I Statement of the problem …………………………………………………………… 1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………. 1 Hypothesis …………………………………………………………………………... 1 Significance of the study ……………………………………………………………. 1 Scope and limitation ………………………………………………………………… 1 Definition of terms …………………………………………………………………... 2 Chapter II Review of related literature …………………………………………………………. 3-4 Chapter III Methodology ………………………………………………………………………
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“Disadvantages and Advantages of Computer” A Research Paper Presented to Prof. Hans Uy In partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English IV By: Junaira R. Jamal First Year College March 2013 ACKNOWLEGDMENT I express my deepest gratitude to my family especially my mother who helps me with the grammar‚ invaluable guidance and blessings. I am very grateful to my English teacher Sir Han Uy for providing us with an environment to complete this project. I would like to thank my
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The significance of a title is not always easy to discover and the full significance of the title becomes apparent to the reader only gradually. In A Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill‚ the significance of the title is developed through the title’s importance to each of O’Neill’s characters. Tyrone‚ Mary‚ Jaime‚ and Edmund carry different meanings of the title. The words long and night play a major role in the importance of the title to each character. Both words can have multiple meanings
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teens and Internet addiction Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a theorized disorder originally made as a satirical hoax by Ivan Goldberg‚ M.D.‚ in 1995. He took pathological gambling as diagnosed by the DSM-IV as his model for the spoofed description. Although IAD was meant to be a hoax‚ it is promoted as a real condition by some supporters. Supporters often divide IAD into subtypes by activity‚ such as pornography‚ overwhelming and immoderate gaming‚ inappropriate involvement in online social
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SEANJAMES TITLE The Addiction of Grade Five Pupils to Computer Online Games that Affect the Academic Performance Among Elementary Pupils of Oton Central Elementary School from School year 2012 – 2013 Objectives of the Study The main objective of the study is to ascertain the factors that contribute to the Addiction of Grade Five Pupils to Computer Online Games that affect the Academic Performance among elementary students of Oton Central Elementary School from School year 2012 – 2013.
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The Harmful Effects on Physical and Mental Health of Excessive Use of Computer for the Freshmen Students of ICCT Cainta Branch In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject Writing in the Discipline PRESENTED TO: PRESENTED BY: A.Y. 2012 ABSTRACT The generation of today is more into computer games rather than physical activities and it is evident in our community. As we all know‚ physical activities are essential to us especially us youths
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Internet Addiction is a problem more common in society as Internet usage is increasing. The prevalence of Internet use worldwide is increasing. Along with the benefits the Internet brings‚ problems of excessive Internet use is becoming apparent. As a result‚ along with drug and alcoholic addictions nowadays‚ there is one more – Internet addiction‚ last but not least. The opinions on the methods for the solution vary‚ because the problem was not studied enough. One of the solutions is to attend support
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