Essays Tagged: "Addiction"

Basketball's Greatest Players

as heavely recruited and signed with UNLV despite never graduating H.S.His biggest downfall was his addiction to drugs since he was twelve yearsold. Despite having anything he wanted and UNLV he was c ...

(1 pages) 68 2 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Nightclubs and Drugs

drugs does not kill their desire to use them. Closing down a crackhouse does not end the residents addiction, it just forces them to move.Reprimanding committed crimes does not eliminate the reason t ...

(6 pages) 92 0 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Dostoevsky's "The Gambler " As A Reflection Of Myself. Personal comparison

elate to him because like me, he is a man of many passions. He is also all but helpless against his addiction to gambling. I have also felt helpless to certain circumstances in my life, as have we all ... that Fyodor Dostoevsky created is similar, in a lot of ways, to myself. I find myself the object of addictions in general. I used to smoke cigarettes and feel helpless against it. Sure, I'd stop for a ...

(3 pages) 72 0 2.3 Mar/1995

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

DOPAMINE NB:sorry for the previous esssay it was sent by mistake i didn't mean to send two same essays

Most people know that addiction is the cause of a social problem, a failure in character or many other things. Well, this ... s is not true because researchers proved that drugs have a chemical that make people unable to quit addiction. This chemical is dopamine, and we will see how it works and affects one person in a minut ... 26, 1997 pp: 43)It is known that scientists have struggled very much to discover the 'mechanism of addiction' , so one might ask some questions like 'Why do certain substances have the power to make ...

(13 pages) 178 1 4.9 Jun/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

This is a paper written on the internet and its effects on society. It is opinionated also, so it is not just fact. It was written for my Business law class.

nother disadvantage is that people aren't spending as much time with their families as they should. Addiction is a re-ocuring problem that is being found. Some daily activities are pushed aside becaus ... ecause there isn't enough time anymore. There are so many things to see and do on the internet that addiction is easy. Things such as: Chat rooms, instant messages, games, pornography, and other inter ...

(3 pages) 209 0 3.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Addiction to Computers ! Will this magic machine get us all addicted to it and make us spell-bound ?

Addiction to computersComputers play a very vital role in all walks of our life. They have their mas ...

(1 pages) 86 2 3.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Legal Drugs In Sport - study note format.

eptable" levels of associated drink and food ingestion. These drugs have an effect upon performance.Addiction results in two basic extremes of metabolism, one in the presence of the drug, the other in ... one is set to wondering how much performances could be improved through the removal of this type of addiction. In this writer's opinion, the effect could be very substantial.Chewing and smoking tobacc ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The insecurities surrounding wireless networks with a brief background on how wireless networks work.

an uprising in popularity of wireless networks. With the influx of wireless networks and the human addiction to the gain knowledge, comes the compromising issue of security. Most people using wireles ...

(9 pages) 531 2 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Drug treatment and education in prisons.

ning class I was listening to 1010 wins. They said girls between the age of 11 and 17 have stronger addiction to drugs and alcohol than boys because of hormones. The girls have hirer addiction rate by ...

(2 pages) 102 1 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The effects of marijuana on the Human brain.

causes too much to be produced the result is extremely pleasurable and can lead to severe abuse and addiction. It has recently been proven that marijuana is not a drug that affects the production of d ...

(2 pages) 64 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Edgar Allan Poe and Reflections of His Life.

nally, by looking into "The Black Cat", we can see Poe's almost lifelong battle with alcoholism and addiction. The French critic Charles Baudelaire says "All of Poe's tales are, in a sense, biographic ... just to isolate him further in his own prison of pain and sorrow. All of these things play into his addiction with alcohol and his inability to live in one place for very long. Poe's life is in his wo ...

(8 pages) 125 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Addictions to sex and drugs, video games and computers (internet).

There are many addiction's that are controlling people today. Addictions can range from drugs and sex to computers ... ctions can range from drugs and sex to computers and video games. There are many different forms of addictions that are trapping our society. Drugs and sex are very harmful addictions because they can ... y can harm people in many physical and mental ways. Computers and video games are also very harmful addictions because they can halt people from socializing and interacting with others. These addictio ...

(2 pages) 115 1 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Gambling in America.

kie just to blow their money on the chance they might get lucky and hit the jackpot. Gambling is an addiction suffered by the same amount of people throughout America as all illegal drugs combined; ho ... chool of medicine found that over 6% of teenagers aged 18 years and younger have a serious gambling addiction. ( J.R. Miller, http://www.professionalgambler.com/right.html, 1999)Gambling in sports, es ...

(12 pages) 289 0 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

How AOL instant Messenger has changed the lives of today's teenagers

The Deterioration of AmericaThere is a new addiction rapidly infecting America's youth. One doesn't have to look very far to see the strangleho ...

(4 pages) 65 0 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Why Teenagers Smoke Despite the Obvious Warnings Against It.

the rest of the world. Once kids start smoking, they cannot stop because of the physical and mental addiction. Throughout our lives, we hear many warnings from authority figures and the media. Despite ...

(4 pages) 73 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Legalization of marijuana.

ncer and Aids; unlike legal drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol which cause debilitating diseases, addiction, and in many cases death. According to the National institute of drug abuse the majority o ...

(1 pages) 39 0 3.8 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"Hamlet" by Shakespeare and "Once more to the lake" by E.B White.

way, but it is possible to escape from your problems in a variety of ways; people sometimes have an addiction to escape from their difficulties like alcoholism or drugs, or they try not to deal with i ...

(5 pages) 82 0 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Against Legalizing Marijuana.

hab for marijuana treatment every year?Marijuana is a gateway drug. A Columbia University Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse study showed that children who smoke marijuana are 85 times more likel ... na may be priming the brain, getting the brain ready for these other drugs," says Dr. Margolis, and addiction specialist. Most kids - and their parents - say that marijuana is practically harmless. Ke ...

(3 pages) 198 7 4.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Marijuana the argument, 'marijuana is a safe drug and it's use will not cause harm or lead to addiction to harder drugs'

'Marijuana is a safe drug and its use will not cause harm or lead to addiction to harder drugs'i disagree, my essay labels clearly the medically proven effects of mariju ... e medically proven effects of marijuana use, and although there is no proof that marijuana leads to addiction of harder drugs, many heroin and cocaine users say their first experience with drugs was m ... the immune cells are weakened you are more likely to get sick.Can the use of marijuana lead to the addiction of harder drugs?Research shows that once having moved on from "just smoking marijuana", th ...

(5 pages) 250 1 1.9 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and personal reflections.

ectricity. However, medical understanding at that time was very primitive, which helped lead to his addiction to opium.In 1784, an Italian surgeon by the name of Beccana discovered that a static elect ... gave him opium. However, as the pain continued, so did his opium usage which ultimately lead to his addiction. He was unable to keep pace with his studies as well as his debts. He fell into depression ...

(9 pages) 161 0 3.6 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry