What is Addiction?
Addiction is obsession, compulsion or psychological dependence on any specific thing. It’s a kind of situation in which you can’t resist against that particular thing. In this condition people don’t think about the side effects of the use of that thing and continues to use them. They feel more pleasure in using them and they don’t realize that they are harming their health and social life. To get pleasure from that product they often use illegitimate sources to get money. In this condition substance abuse is a main thing which affects people badly.
Types of Addiction:
If we talk about types of addictions, then we will find that there are many common addictions. There are many substances which are commonly known as source of addictions like abusive drugs (heroine, hashish etc), but everything which a person cannot resist and becoming dependent on them and feel really depressed without that substance becomes addiction regardless of how much it is useful. Using anything more than it is needed becomes addiction. Drug addiction, crime addiction, pornography addiction, computer or internet addiction, games addiction, nicotine addiction, food addiction, sex addiction are some of the common addictions. A person can be addicted to anything which gives him some kind of pleasure and in the absence of it a person feels withdrawal symptoms.