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Monday, February 21, 2011

Addiction is one of the toughest problems facing our culture today. The growing problems within the family, as well as many other cultural stressors, make addiction a national and international problem that is growing by leaps and bounds.

Contrary to some popular thought, people don't become addicted to drugs, alcohol, or sex just for the fun of it. There are usually reasons why an addiction happens. And these same reasons make an addiction difficult to stop.

These reasons are: tolerance, withdrawal, and there are internal factors that affect her/his behavior, such as genetics, trauma, shame, anxious depression, its not easy to get out of this once you are in. To overcome this you should:

· Attends to an appropiate counselor.

· Emphasis on learning how to meet one's personal needs for intimacy and emotional health.

Psychotherapy to address the issues in one's life that gave enough emotional fuel to put an addiction in place

Lottery Bets Addition

Nowadays many people around the world are living difficult situations because of criminality, corruption, drugs and especially economic situation, etc., in most cases those people we need a helping hand.
When you ask any person what he or she needs the most to solve problems, they say ¨money¨ because you make everything with it. When they hear about lottery or lotto they deposit all their hopes in them that is a getting away from poverty, they begin with a little bet of course, ¨it is not bad to bet just a few of what I get, it is not going to affect my economy¨. But each day that passes by betting is increasing and there is the big problem; those person spend lots of money with the hope of solving their economic problems, they become ¨Lottery bet Addicts¨.
As they bet more and more and rarely win, it seems a neverending story, because they even get to borow money from relatives, friends an the worst; taka money assigned for shopping groceries in the house or take things to any pawn shop because they had a dream about this or that and of course that means my favorite number is going to be on the lottery.

INTERNET ADDICTION

Internet addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, which does not involve use of an intoxicating drug and is very similar to pathological gambling. Some internet users develop an emotional attachment to on-line friends and activities they create on their computers screens. Internet users may enjoy aspects of the internet that allow them to meet, socialize and exchange ideas of chat rooms, social networking websites or virtual communities.

Intenet addictions results in personal, family, academic,financial and occupational problem that are characteristic of other addictions. Impairments of real life relationships are disrupted as a result of excessive use of the internet.

Many person who attempt to quit their internet use experience withdrawal including : anger, depression, relief, mood swings, anxiety, fear, irritability, sadness, loneliness, boredom, restlessness, procrastination, and upset stomach.

Being addicted to the internet can also cause physical disconfort or medical problems such as: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, dry eyes, backaches, severe headaches, etc..

ADDICTIONS

Addiction has been defined as a physical and phycological dependence on psycoactive substance like alcohol, tobacco, heroin and other drugs, which cross the blood-brain barrier once ingested, temporarily altering the chemical milieu of the brain.

In Dominican Republic and in the rest of the world addictions are increasing very fast. and nowadays there are a lot of things that we can consider as addictios, like the internet, blackberrys, talk by the phone, make up and others..

Young people should be careful and not be dominated by addictions that surround us, is incredible as alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, sex, cell phones, the internet and other types of addictions are taken place in our life..

Please think about these social problem and try to help others to avoid those social problems called addictions..