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The definition of an addiction
A center for healing in Santa Fe says that a person can be addicted to:
Alcohol and other drugs
Prescriptions and non prescription drugs
Nicotine
Food
Sex
Work
Love Relationships
Computer Use
Exercise
Religion
Then, the recovery first center says that a person can be addicted to a behavior or substance if withdrawal symptoms occur if the activity is stopped.
What is an addiction?
In the 1950’s doctor Kevin Harvey from Yale did a study on patients that were addicted to a mind altering drug or alcohol substance. He found and believed that addiction was similar/closest to a physical disease, like diabetes. Now it’s diagnosed as a neurological disease, like Tourettes Syndrome. The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) says that addiction is a state of driven, compulsive use. There is also a genetic susceptibility to addiction related to a type of dopamine receptor, or a penchant for risk taking, is inherited, learned, or can be both.
Recent surveys sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and by Faces and Voices of Recovery(a recovery advocacy group) found that half of the public thinks of addiction as a personal weakness. Among those people who did see addiction as a disease, most put it in a special category of diseases that people get by making poor choices. When the public was surveyed by the NIDA, more than 80% of people believed addicts should have been able to rise above their personal weaknesses, and chosen otherwise at the time addiction took hold.
According to a recent ad campaign that was published in the New York Times designed to build support for treatment, addiction is a disease process that corrupts the brain. So addicts shouldn’t be viewed as having a character flaw or moral deficiency. The campaign shows a man...
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