Technological Addict among Today's Human

Methods and patterns of drug abuse among young addict women

Abstract: Although we do not know the exact number of addicted women in our country, but based on some investigations, 9.6% of addicted person are women. Ministry of Health reports show that we have a ratio of one woman per eight addicted men. Our data show that, different factors are playing role at the beginning the drug abuse between women and men. In this study, we investigate the pattern ...

The Addict in the Street

to our knowledge of the drug-taking teenagers, is disappointing for the British scene. The introduction by Jeremy Larner is excellent. However, the edited versions of tape-recordings by drug addicts is repetitive and lacks both direction and emphasis, although it was interesting to peruse the stories of two addicted brothers and an interview with an addict's mother. One imagines that this formu...

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The Addict in Us all

In this paper, we contend that the psychology of addiction is similar to the psychology of ordinary, non-addictive temptation in important respects, and explore the ways in which these parallels can illuminate both addiction and ordinary action. The incentive salience account of addiction proposed by Robinson and Berridge (1-3) entails that addictive desires are not in their nature different fr...

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