Essay, Research Paper: Physical And Psychological Addictions

Physical and psychological addictions are very alike and very different at
the same time. Addiction means that the person addicted thrives on the substance or
action. Physical addictions like alcoholism and heroin are sometimes very noticeable yet,
psychological addictions like gambling are very hard to diagnose. A similarity between the
two types of addictions are the stages that lead up to a full blown addiction. Addictions go
through many stages before reaching the pinnacle of an addiction. For example, a gambler
will first start off betting a dollar, then two, then ten, then a hundred until finally the
gambler is broke. An example for a physical addiction would be the stages that lead to
becoming a true alcoholic. It will all start with one beer, , then Jell-O shooters, then a
margarita, then just drinking liquor straight up out of the bottle, then who knows what the
drinker will turn to next. After going through all of these stages the term used for the
addiction is usually disease because the addiction is going to slowly kill the person
addicted. Though the term addiction is usually thought of as someone on drugs or
drinking, many normal everyday people are addicted to the one thing everyone has a little
of everyday, caffeine. Caffeine is one of North America’s leading addictions prevalent
amongst teenagers. Caffeine is found in chocolate, soda, coffee, and tea.

In conclusion, this shows that many things can become addictive. No
matter what the addiction it is not good. If more people would realize this there would be
less of an addiction crisis than there is today.


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