Internet Addiction—the Next New Fad Diagnosis
Internet Addiction—The Next New Fad Diagnosis
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The definition of Internet addiction is closely related to the definition of drug addiction—so this is the best place to start if we are to gain understanding and avoid confusion. Three features define drug addiction: 1. Tolerance—needing more to get …
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Internet Addiction: The Next New Fad Diagnosis
Filed under: drug addiction definition
The definition of Internet addiction is closely related to the definition of drug addiction, so this is the best place to start if we are to gain understanding and avoid confusion. Three features define drug addiction: Tolerance: needing more to get …
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Doctors Disagree On How To Define Addiction
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Significant proposed changes in the definition of addiction planned in the upcoming new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have met with sharp differences of opinion among doctors. … Dr. Charles O'Brien, a professor …
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Food Addiction
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In the past, addiction was defined by tolerance and withdrawal. The definition of addiction changed after cocaine researchers showed that cocaine was as addicting as other drugs despite being classified by experts as non-addicting on the basis of the …
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The Best Drugs !!! to kill … – Drug addiction is widely considered a pathological state. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behavior, the vulnerability to relapse, and the decreased, slowed ability to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) has categorized three stages of addiction: preoccupation/anticipation, binge/intoxication, and withdrawal/negative affect. These stages are characterized, respectively, everywhere by constant cravings and preoccupation with obtaining the substance; using more of the substance than necessary to experience the intoxicating effects; and experiencing tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, and decreased motivation for normal life activities.[2] By the American Society of Addiction Medicine definition, drug addiction differs from drug dependence and drug tolerance.[3] It is, both among scientists and other writers, quite usual to allow the concept of drug addiction to include persons who are not drug abusers according to the definition of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. The term drug addiction is then used as a category which may include the same persons who under the DSM-IV can be given the diagnosis of substance dependence or substance abuse. (See also DSM-IV Codes)
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