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.
What is Addiction ?
The first stage of addiction
What is experimentation/occasional/recreational use
What is a return to using alcohol or drugs ?
What is a Relapse ?
Which step is "Came to believe that a Power greater than myseld can restore me to Sanity?
Which is Step 3?
Scientists say no single factor can predict whether a person might become addicted to drugs. Half comes from a person’s biology and the other half environment.
What are the cause of addiciton?
Which is a growing consensus that opioid addiction should be treated with medications along with counseling,
WHAT ARE THE BEST TREATMENTS FOR OPIOID ADDICTION?
Are there more types of brain circuitry involved in addiction than researchers previously believed?
WHAT DO NEW STUDIES TELL US ABOUT TREATING ADDICTION?