One of the biggest problems our society is facing today is addiction, be it drugs or alcohol. There is a steady increase on the number of people who are in the pits of addiction. We may not see it as a problem as long as they are not disturbing other people. However, we may not also be aware of the fact that through addiction or drug abuse, the person is hurting and destroying his/her own self.

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In most cases of addition, especially drug addiction, an individual gets physically dependent on a certain substance. The dependency is intense that without the drug the person might be in severe pain or dysfunctional. The reason is that the drug has by now affected the chemical balance in the brain allowing the person’s structure to crave for the certain drug in order to obtain balance. Much worse is that the body later on tolerates the drug that enters the system, thus, resulting to a higher quantity requirement the next time the drug is taken to reach the desired effect.

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The world wide web myspace, cigarettes, booze T.V., you name it. People are addicted. It is human nature to be addicted. Do we choose our addictions or do they choose us? Is it in our genes? Who knows? But the fact our nation is addicted remains. National addiction to war. National addiction to the soap operas of other people’s lives. National addiction to the tragedies of the day we find on the ten o’clock news. When does it become an addiction? Today we nationally face the ever growing fact of technological over-stimulation. With the bombardment of information that came with the internet, the nation has become addicted to, what else, information. But that is human nature right? Even biblical nature. Ever since Eve ate that apple from the Tree of Knowledge, mankind has been hungry for more. We, the people, cannot get enough information! It runs our lives! Since we now have worlds of information at our fingertips, we are now asking even more questions.

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