Sexual addiction

Addiction is very complex. It can be described as a series of damaging activities one does to themselves, that negatively impacts their individual life and the lives of those around them (NIDA 2012). Addiction can be further classified as the repeated action or ingestion of something that alerts one’s mood. Video game addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, similar to pathological gambling (UPH 2016). The concept of Internet addiction as a disorder was initially proposed by Ivan…

Technology Pitfalls: Bored Out of Our Mind, Body and Spirit “Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential.” - Hal Sparks Researcher John Eastwood (York University, Ontario) and colleagues define boredom as "an aversive state of wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity" (Rader 1). There is good and bad in everything and boredom is no exception. Boredom has become pervasive in response to technology, this technology induced boredom…

Opinion Essay: Over-representation of Aboriginals as Offenders Amy Brown ID #201591413 Diversity and the Justice System – CRJS 1013-001 Professor Aulakh Harpreet Tuesday, February 3. 2015 In 2006, Statistics Canada found that 21% of people sentenced to custody and 18.5% in federal institutions were in fact of aboriginal descent (King & Winterdyk, 2010, p. 63). In a graph presented in the text by King and Winterdyk (2010), from Statistics Canada, the graph suggests the highest percent of…

Alcohol addiction and Risk Factors Moderately consuming alcohol is not a danger to most adults. Nonetheless, nearly 18 million adults in the United States have an alcohol use disorder (Swendsen, Burstein, Case, Conway, Dierker, He, and Merikangas, 2012). The DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition) criteria for the alcohol use disorder are a combination of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence. The manual specifies this abuse of alcohol as mild, controlled,…

People with gambling addiction often feel ashamed of their problem and try to avoid people discovering the extent of their problem. Pathological gambling rarely affects just the gambler, family savings can be lost, college education or retirement funds squandered, and home mortgage…

The addiction to a type of substance is the excessively use or intake of that particular substance by an individual. Though not many would bother to learn about addiction but addiction is a commonly daily issue for many individuals. Food, for instance, has been an addiction for many years, however, no one has clearly identify the consequences or dangers surrounding the issue of food addiction. Nevertheless, food addiction can create health issues that can affect the body. There are many…

Isolation can occur as an effect from excessive use of the internet. 2. Addiction…

should never introduce drugs into her system, as they can seriously damage the fetus inside her womb. Still, some pregnant women drink alcohol while they are pregnant. An even worse scenario is when an alcoholic becomes pregnant and cannot quit her addiction while carrying her fetus. William Hermes says that, “The use of alcohol by pregnant woman can subject their infants to fetal alcohol syndrome. Infants suffering from this syndrome may have low birth weights and slower growth than normal…

different levels of consequences. Some Americans say it helps the United States through its economic effects, but statistics show otherwise. Gambling addictions can be hard to understand for people who are not affected by it because, like depression, it can become a problem of the brain. Although it is a hard thing to deal with, gambling addiction can be overcome with the love, help, and support from loved ones. Gambling is a subtle serpent in the lives of many people around the world which…

1.Cornwell,B & Lundgren D.C. (2001) Love on the Internet: involvement and misrepresentation in romantic relationships in cyberspace vs. realspace. In computers in Human Behavior, 17(2), 197-211. doi: 10.1016/S0747-5632(00)00040-6 The increasing use of technology and online dating are changing what society defines as romantics relationship norms. In Love on the Internet: involvement and misrepresentation in romantic relationships in cyberspace vs realspace, researchers B. Cornwell and D.C…