Part one of term paper
Why did Gaylon (not her real name) wish she never accepted the casinos invitation to dinner? This housewife believes if she didn't go she never would have become addicted to gambling - an addiction that ruined her life. Gaylon turned to prostitution, drove her recovering husband back into alcoholism and stole $30,000 from her children. Ra ...

Part two of term paper
... painkiller that almost took her life? These disparate stories show that addiction in the United States is rampant. Society believes that people become addicted because of weakness of will when, in fact, the new way of thinking leads us to believe addictive behavior is caused by a chemical in the brain called dopamine. The word addiction comes from two Latin words ad dictum. Ad dictum means "to the dictator". When people were captured and sent into slavery, they were sent ad dictum. Th ...