Unit 1

Adictons:

The word addiction is derived from latin term for enslaved by or bound to.

For many years, experts believed that only alcohol and power drugs could cause addiction.

However  recent research have shown that certain pleasurable activities, such as gambling, shopping, and eating, can also cause addiction.

In the 1930s, when researchers firts began to investigate what caused addictive behavior, they believed that people who developed addictions were morally flawed or laking in power. Today we reconize addiction as a chronic disease that changes both brain structure and fuction.

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