Addiction is when the body or mind badly wants or needs something in order to work right. If one was to look at society today, they would find many addictions that haunt people's every day life. The society thinks as addiction being only to some sort of drug or alcohol. People can be addicted to drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, and many other things. An addiction is a chronicle disorder that has genetic, psychosocial, and environmental dimensions when somebody is addicted to something, they can become sick if they do not get the thing they are addicted to. Some people who are addicts need to go to a doctor or hospital to cure the addiction, so they no longer crave for the drug. But taking more of the thing they are addicted to can also hurt their health.