Addictions

Instructions

-Suppose a person you know, tells you that he/she is an addict. What can you do to help him?
-Find information about different kinds of addictions in http://www.addictions.co.uk/.
-Make a campaign to inform your classmates about addictions

shopaholic

The compulsive buyers spend their money because they feel the necessity to ligthen the stress. Then they feel guilty and have to fight with their family for the excessive costs.
The main characteristics are:
-Have debts.
-Buy to enjoy themselves.
-Get a lot of the similar object.

Anabella Benincasa – Jésica Sujka.

workhaholic

The real sense of the work addiction is the escape from intimacy and feelings of emptiness that endanger the family life.
As it’s difficult to detect it, sometimes it can only be noticed after the appearance of physical symptons like dream’s problems, hypertension, rheumatic upsets and muscular diseases, vascular upsets, angina pectoris, infarct or nowrishing disorder. Other factors are inefficiency and stress.
A workaholic is a person who is constantly in a hurry, always busy or doing many tasks permanently. It’s mainly an adicction to action.
This adicction can be revealed during the holidays when you have enough free time which favors the appearance of abstinence symptons such as anxiety, insomnia and anguish. Then you begin to feel this as something threatening.

Nora Anzilutti - Laura Nievas

alcoholism

This addiction is very common in our society. It affects young and old people. But, actually young people are becoming more and more addicted to alcohol.
This is because of the social context our society is living.
This addiction is very dangerous for our body. It affects our mind and our system. Excessive alcohol can kill us. We must stop drinking, this is the first step in the fight against alcoholism.

Stella Corbo
Ailén Tripicchio

Gambling

The gambling addicts escape from the reality when they are playing. They live in a world of risks and fantasies .
To be a compulsive player can be catastrophic, not only thy are affected, thir family are also. Their obligations begin to increse, because they lose money. Then they start to be depressed because they feel fault and they can`t find solution on their own, and they begin to have more and more problems.
This addiction has a solution, the victim can return to his normal and happy life because the treatment is highly effective.

Agustina Moretti; Keila Gomar.

Gambling

Like all the addictions, gambling implies to escape from reality. Several events happen and this can lead us to take the risk and the fantasy that surrounds gambling.
The consequences of this addiction can be catastrophic: The debts and the loans increase putting in risk the life of the person, their family and friends.
The addiction is accompanied by high levels of guilt, shame and remorse. The person who suffers from this addiction is unable to find a solution by himself, but this problem can finish with the rigth treatment. In this way, the addict will be able to be happy again and recover his normal life.

Belen Nonini, Veronica La Rosa

gambling

Like all the addictions, gambling implies to escape from reality. Several events happen and this can lead us to take the risk and the fantasy that surrounds gambling.
The consequences of this addiction can be catastrophic: The debts and the loans increase putting in risk the life of the person, their family and friends.
The addiction is accompanied by high levels of guilt, shame and remorse. The person who suffers from this addiction is unable to find a solution by himself, but this problem can finish with the rigth treatment. In this way, the addict will be able to be happy again and recover his normal life.

Marcelo Ríos – Pascual Biondo

food addiction

Food addiction is a disease characterized by obsession with weight and body image. This addiction causes nourshing upheavals like “Bulimia”, an eating disorder that affects mostly females and characterized by episodes of excessive food ingestion.
The person uses diverse methods to burn off the calories, such as vomiting, consuming laxatives, water pill enemas and other drastic measures.
They usually hide their problems to their family.

Lucía Isla y Melisa Contratti

vigorexia

It`s generally a men`s obsession of looking at themselves as muscular people. They always match themselves in the mirror, they weigh themselves constantly, and day by day the get more and more far from their families and friends.
The mass media influences a lot in people with weak mood. People who suffers from vigorexia feel uncomfortable with their body.
To change, they eat diet food and they also spend many hours in the gym. To prevent this illnes it is important to assume it, to know that it exists, after this, the amount of hours people spend in the gym and un the mirror must be reduced. To finish with this, it could be helpful that people consult a psychologist in order to start a therapy.

Jonathan Infantino y Juan Ignacio Grodz

tranquilizers

Effects:

• Sedation and lass of muscular coordination.

• Some people experience a “floating”sensation, and most exhibit mental confusion and physical unsteadiness.


• Occasionally, paradoxical reactions, sleep disturbances, rage, or personality changes.

• Other side effects include skin rashes, nausea and dizziness.


Agustina González y Romina Gasali

Don´t eat delicacies!

It is very bad, because it contributes neither any nutrients, vitamins nor proteins. The only thing that adds is calories, and that is why people and children get fatter and fatter. Delicacies and junk food are the principal problems of the people, because they are addictive and besides they put on weight, so that they create the obesity. Some of the problems that produce obesity is the agitation, problems to travel, problems in the column, cardiac problems, cholesterol, and the most serious, the death. For all this, you already know ... don´t eat delicacies.

Gastón Martorelli- Nicolás Carrón

Smoking

You should respect people when they tell you they don´t want you to smoke near them. Cigarettes become an addiction, that´s why it is very hard to stop smoking. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more breathing problem you will have. Smoking is harmful for your health, and for other people´s. If you smoke a lot of cigarettes, they will probably make you ill.Smoking is unhealthy because it can produce lung cancer.

Yamilia Rugiero y Julieta Gualdoni

Telly addict

The television is a drug that breaks the communication among the people and can create a real addiction in children and young people with weak personalities or problems in the behavior. The content of some images and television programs induces to the violence in the young people, including the sexual one. For these people the images are not an entertainment, they use the television like a sedative.
The television poduces the same effect that is derived from the chemical drug ingestion

Rodrigo Parotti - Fernando Muñoz

drugs

A drug is any chemical or biological substance, synthetic or non-synthetic, that when it is taken into the organism's body, it will in some way alter the functions of that organism.
The excessive consumption of those substances can produce dependency, stimulation or depression of the central nervious system.
Drug addiction is a condition characterized by compulsive drug intake, craving and seeking, despite what the majority of society may perceive as the negative consequences associated with drug use.
Such persons are dependent on the drug, but are not addicted. One is addicted, rather than merely dependent, if one exhibits compulsive behavior towards the drug and has difficulty in quitting it.
There are drugs that are no legal like cocaine.

Camila Arboleya
Julieta Delgado

Drugs

Addiction can affect anyone and there are many drugs, both legal (for example tranquillisers and sleeping tablets) and illegal (cocaine, cannabis).
Drugs have been in human history for ever, but as the time has been passing, the type of substances and the way of consuming have changed.
Drugs extend our vision, to a satisfactory world, but at the same time to an evil world.
Look for help is the first thing to do, to be better


Lucía Pinillos-Yamila Hass

Drugs

Addiction can affect anyone and there are many drugs, both legal (for example tranquillisers and sleeping tablets) and illegal (cocaine, cannabis).
Drugs have been in human history for ever, but as the time has been passing, the type of substances and the way of consuming have changed.
Drugs extend our vision, to a satisfactory world, but at the same time to an evil world.
Look for help is the first thing to do, to be better


Lucía Pinillos-Yamila Hass

Smoking

The diseases caused by the habit of smoking kill more than 438.000 people in Argentina every year. In fact, the habit of smoking is directly responsible for the majority of the cases of cancer of lung (87 %), for emphysema and for chronic bronchitis. Even with the campaigns in opposition to the tobacco, people continue smoking or start smoking every year. According to the American Society of the Cancer 90 % of the new smokers are children or teenagers who substitute, in many cases, those who stop smoking or die prematurely of a disease associated with the habit of smoking.

Emiliano Martorelli