Substance Abuse and Addiction Are Called?

Question by Rachh: Substance abuse and addiction are called?
Public enemy number one, A term for using drugs ,None of the above please help only give answer if your absolutely sure or have taken the drug and alcohol Florida test also if you know…

The brain plays no role in addiction.. TRUE OR FALSE? please & thank you

Best answer:

Answer by Andrea
A term for using drugs.

False.

Answer by Steve
Brain, mind, and body are all different aspects of one whole person. They cannot be separated. The impression we have that they are different “things” is the illusion. You can think of a stressful thing and your heart rate goes up. Your adrenal glands produce stress hormones that will make your mood agitated or depressed. Your mood will then affect your thoughts. What you think about will affect your mood. They cannot be separated.

But addiction clearly has strong biological causes. A strong genetic component to addiction has been unequivocally proven by twin studies, for example. A whole bunch of different genes either add to susceptibility or confer some resistance.

Still, one of the strongest predictors of addiction is childhood emotional trauma. Everything affects everything else inside us.

Which is why addiction is best treated by a combination of approaches that include individual psychology, social setting (hang out with sober people), and often medication to control cravings or to treat mental disorders.

Addiction is a compulsion. It is almost exactly like the eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia, except the eating disorders do not involve external chemical substances.