Addiction: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
By The MNT Editorial Team
Last updated Tue 5 January 2016
What is addiction?
Signs of addiction
Addiction risk factors
Causes of addiction
How is addiction diagnosed?
Treatments for addiction
Addiction complications
People with an addiction do not have control over what they are doing, taking or using. Their addiction may reach a point at which it is harmful.
Addictions do not only include physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol, but may include virtually anything, such abstract things as gambling to seemingly harmless products, such as chocolate - in other words, addiction may refer to a substance dependence (e.g. drug addiction) or behavioral addiction (e.g. gambling addiction).
This article focuses mainly on addiction to physical substances.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/addiction
