My wife and family have accused me of having an addiction to woodturning. I said they were wrong, it was just a past-time, stress reliever, a means of me escaping reality. I could quit it any time I wanted to. To prove them wrong, I looked up the definition of addiction for them on the web and showed it to them. After reading the definitions, they said without a doubt I had an addiction. If you were to substitute woodturning or wood for the word drug in the definition, I'm afraid they are right. But, I can quit, I just choose not to. Honest. (I don't mean any offense to anyone truly suffering from an addiction, just my twisted mind at work).
a.. A chronic, relapsing disease characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and use and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain.
a.. A physiological and psychological compulsion for a habit-forming substance. In extreme cases, an addiction may become an overwhelming obsession.
a.. Uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance such as a drug or alcohol.
a.. Addiction is a primary, chronic, neurobiologic disease, with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. ...
a.. A term referring to compulsive drug use, psychological dependence, and continuing use despite harm. Addiction is frequently and incorrectly equated with physical dependence and withdrawal. Physical dependence, not addiction, is an expected result of opioid use.
a.. a state of being dependent on a certain substance, which is harmful or dangerous for the physical or mental health of the person, for his social well-being and economical functioning of the subject library.thinkquest.org/C0115926/glosary.htm
a.. a disease, influenced by genetic, psychological, social, and environmental factors, that changes the normal way the nervous system works. ...
a.. Psychological or emotional dependence on the effects of a drug.
a.. A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect. ...
a.. drug-seeking behaviour that occurs after the drug is no longer needed. Contrary to popular belief, this is not a problem if drugs are given for pain. pediatric-pain.ca/mclp/mclpm-te.html
a.. A compulsive physiological need for a drug. ojjdp.ncjrs.org/PUBS/drugid/glossary.html
a.. A compulsive physiological craving for a habit-forming substance, addiction is a chronic and progressive disease usually characterized by physiological symptoms upon withdrawal. The term "dependence" is often used synonymously to avoid the pejorative connotations of addiction. wind.uwyo.edu/sig/definition.asp
a.. implies that a drug dependency has developed to such an extent that it has serious detrimental effects on the user (referred to as an addict). They may be chronically intoxicated, have great difficulty stopping the drug use, and be determined to obtain the drug by almost any means. ...
a.. A behavioural pattern characterized by compulsion, loss of control, and continued repetition of a behaviour or activity spite of adverse consequenses.
a.. dependence on a substance (such as alcohol or other drugs) or an activity, to the point that stopping is very difficult and causes severe physical and mental reactions
a.. A strong dependence on a drug.
a.. The result of abuse and a stage in which you are no longer able to live without the drug
a.. The behavioral pattern of continued use of the drug without actually needing it for beneficial purposes.
a.. A neurobehavioral syndrome with genetic and environmental influences that results in psychological dependence on the use of substances for their psychic effects and is characterized by compulsive use despite harm. ...
a.. Loss of control over drug use or the compulsive seeking and taking of drug despite adverse consequences. www3.utsouthwestern.edu/molpsych/Gloss_01.htm
a.. Dependence on a chemical substance to the extent that a physiological and/or strong psychological need is established.
a.. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something. Read about addiction in Wikipedia Addiction
a.. A disease process characterized by the continued use of a specific psychoactive substance despite physical, psychological or social harm.
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