o discuss addiction in general before turning to more specific considerations of the objects of addiction and what has been termed the addictive personality.
Physiological & Psychological Aspects of Addiction
The most common way of thinking about addiction is to think of it as physiological in nature. That is to say, physiological addiction is characterize by a foreign substance causing biological changes in the physical make-up of the addict such that the body becomes physically dependent upon the “unnatural” substance in much the same way that it is dependent upon natural ones (oxygen, food, etc.). Usually the removal of the foreign substance does not result in the death of the body
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