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- 24 Lis 2021
Generally addiction is defined by the literature as continued drug use that persists in the face of negative experience.Addiction is a dependency. The word has been watered down which is why you’re confused, in modern times some scientists use dependency exclusively (which is the definition of addiction) because of people watering down the term, which is how you’re using the word.
Sometimes we differentiate addiction into physical addiction (dependency), and psychological addiction.
I don't know if you are disagreeing with the literature, as sometimes these definitions can be quite arbitrary.
The central nervous system being reliant, dependent, addicted, is not a ”mental” struggle other than the fact these processes are controlled by the brain.
I have to disagree with you on that. There is so much data about the neurobiological changes in the brain related to addiction. And not only in the classic dopamine theory now. We have functional imaging studies showing us these changes. These changes to the brain neurochemistry should not be underestimated as they occur in brain regions that are outside our voluntary control. Psychological addiction can be a real struggle, as many others obsessive disorders can (obsessive disorders shares involvement in several neural circuits with addiction). It may not be compared to opioids, but cocaine can be addictive and there is published material on that.Fun fact, cocaine is not addictive. Heroine is addictive, alcohol is addictive, but cocaine doesn’t work like that
EDIT: clarification
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