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The Mysteries of Addiction revealed!

March 25, 2008 - 1:23pm — sulimans
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Are you a crazy victim of addiction? I am. There are millions of people just like me around the world. Addiction is when the continuous use of something. There are 6 billion people in the world. 30% are addicted to something. That is 1 billion people around the world the number increasing every moment. People are addicted to food, games, gambling, and so much more. Anyone can be addicted to something. You might even notice that is how crazy it is. “ I have been addicted to video games for so long I play video games 14 hours a day some times without sleep,” said Bob Hinlely. He is a person with no life because of addiction. Bob is also 500 pounds. He weighs the same as a sumo wrestler! Even teachers are addicted to something” I love to read books.  I find it incredibly pleasing to read and write books," said a teacher.  Addiction can even turn something normal like reading into something dangerous.

           

Food and drinks probably the most addicting thing out there. Chocolate a sweet, delicious, creamy type of food that is highly addictive. It has caffeine and many other types of sugar and chemicals that make it pleasuring.  Part of the pleasure of eating chocolate is due to the fact that its melting point is slightly below human body temperature, therefore melting in the mouth. People eat 2 billion pounds of chocolate per year. That is 11 pound of chocolate for each person, which are 240 Hershey chocolate bars for each person. Which is $ 1.7 billion just spent on addiction, just on chocolate. If you think that is nothing some people die from chocolate every year. Chocolate has partial poison because of where it is extracted.  Chocolate has a lot of pollution which the coco plant extracts and it reacts like a poison.

           

Chocolate is not the only addicting thing. Video games are too. World of Warcraft the most addicting game in the world. 13 million people play it every day. 45% percent of people that play it are addicted to it. This is about 6 million people that play it over 14 hours a day. In Korea, a parent that was addicted to World of Warcraft starved her child and played the game 3 days nonstop without sleep. “I can’t stop the game it is far to addicting and there is too much to do,” said Harry Parker who cuts school so much just for World of Warcraft.

           

Money is also very addicting.  You and I both love money but gamblers lose over $ 100 million dollars a year. That is far more money you or I will make in our whole life.  46% of people who gamble become addicted to it.             Addiction is not a normal thing. It affects many people in the world. Carl Jackson he used to be a millionaire until he started Burger King. He was so addicted to Whoppers, that he spent $ 3,012,002 on it. Now he lives in the slums instead of being a rich lawyer, very fat and depressed. Addiction got the best of him, now he has no life. Addiction can get any one in the world including you. 

            Addiction can be helped. Tell a parent or a person who cares. Addiction is a little problem but it can help.

Chcolate

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