Addiction involves craving for something intensely, loss of control over its use, and continuing involvement with it despite adverse consequences. Addiction changes the brain, first by subverting the way it registers pleasure and then by corrupting other normal drives such as learning and motivation.

1. Addictions
By dylan corneillie

2. What is
addiction
◦ Addiction involves
craving for something
intensely, loss of control
over its use, and
continuing involvement
with it despite adverse
consequences.
◦ Addiction changes the
brain, first by subverting
the way it registers
pleasure and then by
corrupting other normal
drives such as learning
and motivation.

3. How does addiction develop?
◦ Factors such as peer pressure, physical and sexual abuse, early
exposure to drugs, stress, and parental guidance can greatly affect a
person's likelihood of drug use and addiction.
◦ Addiction involves craving for something intensely, loss of control over
its use, and continuing involvement with it despite adverse
consequences.

4. What are the six major
characteristics of addictive
behavior?
salience
◦ Salience is a critically low-level cognitive ability that supports
situational awareness. For example, a driver going at 40 miles
per hour can quickly focus on relevant things such as
pedestrians, bicycles, vehicles, and traffic lights from a fast-
moving stream of visual information.

5. mood modification
◦ Mood modification – This refers to the subjective experiences
that people report as a consequence of engaging in the activity
and can be seen as a coping strategy.
◦ The simple explanation:
children getting rewards for positive behavior. Such as doing
chores or controlling their temper; in this way, the positive
behavior of doing chores would continue, and the negative
behavior of having a hard-to-control temper would decrease or
stop happening.

6. tolerance
◦ Tolerance is a fair and objective attitude towards others and
is usually a conscious effort from the individual. Tolerance
can be in the individual, community, group or state.

7. withdrawal symptoms
◦ Withdrawal symptoms: Abnormal physical or psychological
features that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug that
has the capability of producing physical dependence.
◦ Symptoms can include insomnia, irritability, changing moods,
depression, anxiety, aches and pains, cravings, fatigue,
hallucinations, and nausea. The person may be hot and cold,
have goosebumps, or have a runny nose as if they have a
cold.

8. conflict
◦ Conflict means to clash with someone or something. An
example of conflict is to disagree with someone over
opposite opinions.
◦ A conflict addict can be characterized as a person who will
risk everything for the thrill of an argument and the
subconscious comfort they find in instability. Take, for
instance, the past few family gatherings that you have had
that involved ending in arguments.

9. relapse
◦ dependence and can often
be a feature of the recovery.
A relapse happens when a
person stops maintaining
their goal of reducing or
avoiding the use of alcohol
or other drugs and returns
to their previous levels of
use.

10. Types of addiction
◦ Addiction can be either physical or behavioral, and often they go hand
in hand. Though alcohol and tobacco are commonly recognized types
of addiction, there are actually hundreds of types of medically and
scientifically recognized addictions.

11. Alcohol
◦ What causes someone to be an alcoholic?
◦ Your culture, religion, family and work influence
many of your behaviors, including drinking. Family
plays the biggest role in a person's likelihood of
developing alcoholism. Children who are exposed
to alcohol abuse from an early age are more at risk
of falling into a dangerous drinking pattern.

12. drugs
◦ Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a
disease that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads
to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or
medication. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana, and
nicotine also are considered drugs.
◦ What are the symptoms of addiction to drugs?
• Changes in personality and behavior like a lack of
motivation, irritability, and agitation.
• Bloodshot eyes and frequent bloody noses.
• Shakes, tremors, or slurred speech.
• Change in their daily routines.
• Lack of concern for personal hygiene.
• Unusual need for money; financial problems.

13. Food Addiction
◦ Food addiction is a mental health issue in which a
person becomes addicted to food, especially processed
junk foods. Numerous scientific studies confirm that
food addiction involves the same brain areas as drug
addiction

14. Internet Addiction
◦ Internet addiction is defined as an unhealthy behavior that interferes
with and causes stress in one's personal, school, and/or work life. Like
other addictions, compulsive Internet usage completely dictates a
person's life.
◦ Effects Of An Internet Addiction
Body aches, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, insomnia, vision problems, and
weight gain/loss are just some of the physical problems one may suffer as
a result of internet addiction. Emotional effects may include depression,
dishonesty, anxiety, social isolation, aggression, and mood swings.

15. Work Addiction
◦ Work addiction is the compulsion or the uncontrollable need
to work incessantly. Like any addiction, work addiction may
stem from underlying psychological needs and may have a
negative impact on health, relationships, and, ironically, job
performance.
◦ Causes of it are thought to be anxiety, low self-esteem, and
intimacy problems. Furthermore, workaholics tend to have
an inability to delegate work tasks to others and tend to
obtain high scores on personality traits such as neuroticism,
perfectionism, and conscientiousness. Clinical psychologist
Bryan E.

16. Seeking pain
◦ Masochism and sadism are both about the enjoyment of
pain. Masochism refers to the enjoyment of experiencing
pain while sadism refers to the enjoyment of inflicting pain
on someone else. Interestingly, both masochism and
sadism are eponymous words.
◦ In a recent study, the most frequent reason for engaging in
masochism and sadism was to give or exchange power with
another person. Others responded that the practice allowed
them to enter into an alternative state of consciousness,
one that could lead to a somewhat meditative and relaxed
state.

17. TREATMENT

18. ◦ It is possible to return to a
healthy life with the help of
the appropriate behavioral
therapies, medication
assisted treatment, exercise,
and a sense of community.

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