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Defining addiction

Addiction is a term that we use a lot; we say that we are addicted to a series on Netflix, chocolate, or an author of a fantasy series. But psychologists need a good working definition of addiction in order to diagnose this health problem. One definition is:Addiction is a primary, chronic, neurobiological disease that is a result of genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors... It is characterized by behaviors...

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