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Drug Addiction Negative Reinforcement
4,209 words... ve drugs. The Addiction Research Center Inventory, an empirically derived test designed to measure the subjective effects of addictive drugs, detects the mood-elevating effects of psychomotor stimulants and opiates on the same scale (see Haertzen and Hickey 1987). On the other hand, the subjective-effects of these two drug classes can be easily distinguished. This is not surprising considering that ex-addicts report a preference for heroin over morphine (Martin and Fraser 1961), even though ...
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Good Or Bad Moral Relativism
4,406 wordsMORAL OBJECTIVISM 1 What is the issue The present essay is a defense of a view called moral objectivism and attack on its opposite, subjectivism or moral relativism. Moral relativism is probably the subject concerning which more nonsense has been written and said in modern times than any other in moral philosophy. I suspect this is partly because people wish to provide arguments in favor of relativism without first having a clear idea of what their thesis is; partly because the authors' argument...
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Drug Addiction Addictive Drugs
8,497 wordsDrug Addiction as a Psychobiological Process The emphasis is on biological mechanisms underlying addiction, although some other factors influencing drug addiction will also be discussed. The presentation is limited primarily to psychomotor stimulants (e. g. , amphetamine, cocaine) and opiates (e. g. , heroin, morphine) for two reasons. First, considerable knowledge has been gained during the past 15 years regarding the neurobiological mechanisms mediating their addictive properties. Second, thes...
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Adolf Hitler Harpercollins Publishers
4,378 wordsBelinda Norman Yr 12 English Essay 12 / 02 / 01 Is there such a thing as history which is more objective than memory? For many years now there has been a strong debate, as regarding wether or not there is such a thing as history that is more objective than memory. Due to memories completely subjective nature, history although also being somewhat subjective, it is a great deal more objective than memory. To discuss such a statement first one must define the terms history, objective and memory. Th...
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Greek Myth Objective Reality
1,611 wordsSubjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Subjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Red Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a world of subjective reality. Carson explores the relationship between subject and object through a reworking of an original Greek myth. The original myth is of Herakles, whos tenth labor was to kill Geryon, a red winged monster who lived on an island, and steal his cattle. Carson takes the insignificant character of Geryon and creates a story based...
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