Essays on Addicting

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According to the reports of Carroll Ogden and the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate of childhood obesity doubled among children while the rate quadrupled among teenagers over the last three decades (“Childhood Obesity”). This means that more and more children and adolescents are becoming at risk of serious illnesses associated with excess weight, which include cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and high blood pressure. In order to resolve this issue, children and teenagers must be encouraged to make a lifestyle change. For many, encouraging them to be involved with more physical activities remains a viable option. Many ...

People are unconsciously embracing slow and painful death every single day. This is evident from the thousands of people who smoke cigarettes on a daily basis despite being warned and reminded that smoking is harmful and it kills. According to a report prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC, currently, 42.1 million of American adults are smokers (Jamal et al.). Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that smoke-related illnesses accounts for around 480, 000 deaths annually in the United States, which makes cigarette smoking as the number one cause of ...

Psychoactive drugs are chemical substances that affect neurotransmitter transmission in specific parts of the brain. The chronic use of psychoactive drugs results in drug addiction; a compulsive urge to continue using the drug, physical and or psychological dependence on drug and a tendency to increase the dosage of the drug. Compulsive drug-seeking behavior and psychological dependence have biological and psychological dimensions. The psychological dependence implies the compulsive self-administration of the drug, caused by both its reinforcing or rewarding effects and the unpleasant experience, such as abstinence syndrome produced by the sudden interruption of its consumption. The biological dependence implies that addiction ...

Issue

Gambling is a serious addiction for some people. Problems and addictions to gambling have been a concern in the public health field for several years. Internationally, gambling problems range from .2 percent to 2.3 percent of the population (Gainsbury, 2014, p. 769). However, these rates are starting to increase due to the development of technology and the introduction of more and more gambling games. It is estimated that these rates have grown 1-5 percent since the development of Internet gambling (Chappell, 2014). Also, electronic gambling machines where developed making it very easy and quick for an individual to gamble. These games ...

Development Through Operant or Classical Conditioning

Phobias and Addictions: Development Through Operant or Classical Conditioning How and why phobias and addictions develop are a continual area of research for psychologists and their colleagues in related fields. While many theories exist as to why people have phobias or become addicted, including genetic predisposition and others, the roles of classical conditioning and operant conditioning in the conditions of phobias and addictions is an important area to explore because it provides more information on why the conditions exist and new possibilities in treatment. Phobias can be developed through classical conditioning and addictions can be developed through operant ...

I submit the following report, “Obesity: The Effects of Processed Food” in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Technical Report Writing. This report discusses the problem of obesity and how it is affected by eating processed food. Its purpose is to identify the importance of reduced processed food consumption to prevent the risks that may transpire through overconsumption, namely becoming obese.

With the research that has been done, one of the most important pieces of information discovered was that overconsumption of processed food has increased the cases of men and women who have contracted heart complications, and diseases such ...