Can Some People Have a More Addictive Personality than Others?
By Ally Purdy There are many forms of addiction out there nowadays. Society runs on a sort-of necessity based lifestyle. People feel as if they need their morning coffee or they need their fix of...
View ArticleJust About Everything is Addictive… But Not Marijuana?
By Andrés Medina I would like to recount the story of my friend which places the reader in the context of the marijuana addict, an argument on the increased pervasiveness of denial in marijuana...
View ArticleSex Addiction, from the Statistics to the Treatment
By Odete Ojeda It is said that an approximate 5% of the American population suffers from sex addiction, but the number is believed to be much higher since many do not seek help due to shame and guilt,...
View ArticleStudent Population: Relation between stress and the development of addiction
By MT An addiction is defined as a physiological and/or physical need for a habit-forming substance or activity. According to Patrick Carnes, addiction is a brain disease in which brain activity...
View ArticleShopping Addiction: Really a Soft Addiction?
By Justine Prabucki There is a difference between compulsion and addiction. Although shopping addiction is often considered to be a “soft” addiction or just a compulsion, it works very similarly to the...
View ArticleEvolutionary Origin of Drug Addiction
By Josephine Evans. With any addiction it is often looked down upon but yet not fully understood before judgment is passed. I have always had a difficult time accepting my father’s drug addiction even...
View ArticleSex Addiction or Just Cheating?
By Eric Manfredi. When we first had our discussion in class about the situation that a wife found her husband’s collection of pictures and videos organized by local, date, and the initial of the...
View ArticleCheating, Addiction, and Society
By Neli Ivanova. When I sat in class and first heard about this husband having so many affairs and keeping track of them through his own personal video collection, I was really shocked. I realized as...
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