The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which shuns the term addiction (but nevertheless, confusingly refers to addictive disorders), instead prefers the term substance ...

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain and behavior. With drug addiction, you can’t resist the urge to use them. If you’re worried that you or a loved one may have an addiction ...

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“Compulsive uncontrollable drug use with impairment in social and occupational function” is a relatively well-accepted phenotype-like definition of drug addiction, but it really says little ...

Less than 31 is normal usage. See Internet addiction. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

This is a very simplistic overview of how drug addiction works in the human brain, but I think you get the picture. You’ve ...