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WHAT IS “ADDICTION” OR SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE?

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WHAT IS “ADDICTION” OR SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE?

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Using mood altering substances is a matter of degree or severity. Addiction unfolds along a continuum. At one end, a persons occasional drink, for example, is not a problem at all. At the other end, his or her use of alcohol has become extremely serious, perhaps even life threatening. Dependence results when an individual is preoccupied with using alcohol or drugs and continues the behaviour compulsively despite ever increasing negative consequences to life, health and self-esteem.