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 medicine. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana and nicotine also are considered drugs. When you’re addicted, you may continue using the drug despite the harm it causes.
Known facts
Drug addiction can start with experimental use of a recreational drug in social situations, and, for some people, the drug use becomes more frequent. For others, particularly with opioids, drug addiction begins when they take prescribed medicines or receive them from others who have prescriptions
Addiction is not restricted to drugs or substancees; it can bean inability to stop a certain unhealthy, unproductive or destructive life style such as gambling, pornography, stealing, etc. With accurate diagnosis and the right medicationand in some cases, psychotherapy or both, you can become yourself again.
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