Addiction
- What Is Drug Addiction?
Drug addiction begins as substance abuse, which is the use of an illegal substance or a legal substance used in the wrong way. Addiction to drugs occurs when the person has no control over whether or not he or she uses. Addicts feel they have to have the drug. Addiction may have physical or psychological symptoms, or both.
- What Is Addiction
It is very easy to assume that addiction is associated only with illicit drugs or hard liquor. For those of us who abstain from these substances, we could easily assume we are immune from addiction. Unfortunately, in reality we are not so safe. Addiction is actually a chronic brain disorder.
