Addiction is when the body or mind badly wants or needs something in order to work right. When you have addiction to something it is called being addicted If one was to look at society today, they would find many addictions that haunt people’s every day life. Most often society thinks as an 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 chronic neurobiological 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 (want or need) the drug. But taking more of the thing they are addicted to can also hurt their health. People can also be addicted to other things which are not drugs. You may hear people talk about being "addicted to Internet“, chocolate, mobile phones. Addiction can be physical, psychological or mental. A drug addiction is a form of craving, or strong want for something, which is impossible to control. Most addictions start at an individuals adolescence age where they just learning who they are and how to fit into it. There are many warning signs to addictions which include the list of the following like, tolerance, preoccupation with the drug. Personality changes were Individuals withdraw from their friends and their family, Solitary use.
'Addiction', 'craving', 'dependence', 'enslavement', 'habit',
'obsession' these are some of the many ways of describing a persons
need for something or someone. Addiction hampers the growth of the person by shattering his goals aims in his very own life. Sometimes addiction may help person grow mentally strong. Addiction has both merit and demerits. Although many people in the world today are addicted to something small, that does not seem important to their every day living, they are greatly affected by their tendency to overindulge in some pleasurable activity. Whether it is only reading mystery books, to liking a specific cookie, to the more serious addictions such as heroin and cocaine, one can only try to separate the good from the bad pleasures of life. Since everyone needs something that helps him or her get through the day, it is no wonder that people become addicted to such little things. These things bring a false and short sense of happiness to the lives of many people surviving in our very own society. |