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Addictions
Business English
Marion Soomre
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What is addiction?
The term "addiction" is used in many contexts to describe
an obsession, compulsion, or excessive physical depence
or psychological dependence, such as: drug addiction,
video games, crime, alcoholism, compulsive overeating,
problem gambling, computer addiction, pornography, etc.
Drug addiction
Drug addiction is widely
considered a pathological
state. The disorder of
addiction involves the
progression of acute drug
use to the development of
drug-seeking behavior, the
vulnerability to relapse, and
the decreased, slowed
ability to respond to
naturally rewarding stimuli.
Video game addiction
Video game addiction, or
more broadly video game
overuse, is excessive or
compulsive use of computer
and video games that
interferes with daily life.
Instances have been reported
in which users play
compulsively, isolating
themselves from, or from
other forms of, social contact
and focusing almost entirely
on in-game achievements
rather than broader life
events.
Crime addiction
Societies define crime as the
breach of one or more rules
or laws for which some
governing authority or force
may ultimately prescribe a
punishment. People, who are
addicted to do crime are
suffering in crime addiction.
There are different kinds of
that: stealing, killing,
robbing, etc.
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a term with
multiple and sometimes
conflicting definitions to describe
the detrimental effects of alcohol
intake.
In common and historic usage,
alcoholism refers to any condition
that results in the continued
consumption of alcoholic
beverages despite health problems
and negative social consequences.
Modern medical definitions
describe alcoholism as a disease
and addiction which results in a
persistent use of alcohol despite
negative consequences.
Compulsive overeating
Compulsive overeating, also
sometimes called food addiction
is characterized by an
obsessive/compulsive
relationship to food.
Professionals address this with
either a behaviour-modification
model or a food-addiction
model. An individual suffering
from compulsive overeating
disorder engages in frequent
episodes of uncontrolled eating,
or bingeing, during which they
may feel frenzied or out of
control, often consuming food
past the point of being
comfortably full.
Problem gambling
Problem gambling
(ludomania) is an urge to
gamble despite harmful
negative consequences or a
desire to stop. The term is
preferred to compulsive
gambling among many
professionals, as few people
described by the term
experience true compulsions in
the clinical sense of the word.
Problem gambling often is
defined by whether harm is
experienced by the gambler or
others, rather than by the
gambler's behavior.