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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...

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Just 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...

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Sex 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,...

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Student 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...

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Shopping 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...

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Evolutionary 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...

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Sex 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...

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Cheating, 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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