A person with an addiction uses a substance, or engages in a behavior, for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeat the activity, despite detrimental consequences.

Then again, there are people with seemingly no substance abuse history in their family, yet they still somehow formed an addiction. The definition of disease is a disorder of structure or ...

Simply substitute the word “behavior” for “substance” and you open up the definition of addiction to many types of dependencies. The American Psychiatric Association describes addiction as ...

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