Addiction vs Addicted - What's the difference?
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(medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.Angres DH, Bettinardi-Angres K (October 2008). "The disease of addiction: origins, treatment, and recovery". Dis Mon 54 (10): 696–721. doi:10.1016/j.disamonth.2008.07.002. PMID 18790142.Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE (2009). "Chapter 15: Reinforcement and Addictive Disorders". In Sydor A, Brown RY. Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Medical. pp. 364–365, 375. ISBN 9780071481274. "The defining feature of addiction is compulsive, out-of-control drug use, despite negative consequences. ...compulsive eating, shopping, gambling, and sex–so-called “natural addictions”– Indeed, addiction to both drugs and behavioral rewards may arise from similar dysregulation of the mesolimbic dopamine system."
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma.
A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.
Being physically or psychologically dependent on something.
(addict)
As a noun addiction
is a state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.As an adjective addicted is
being physically or psychologically dependent on something.As a verb addicted is
past tense of addict.addiction
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Noun
(wikipedia addiction) (en noun)- His addiction was to courses vain.'' ''Shakespeare .
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(f)addicted
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He is addicted to the Internet.
- She became more addicted to crack than she had ever been to heroin.