What is addiction?

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What is addiction?

     Addiction is a disease of the brain characterized by a chronic and compulsive need to take a substance, at increasing doses (tolerance) and on more frequent occasions (dependence), even when faced with negative consequences. Compulsive substance abuse can result in chronic and debilitating health problems, family breakdown and social isolation, poverty, incarceration for criminal activity and death.

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