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People can be addicted to anything.
No matter what the addiction, the underlying mechanism is the same. Habits actually change the neurochemistry of the brain. Without the ritual or act, i.e. habit being performed, the altered physiology of the brain is not sustained. Thus we repeat the act to maintain the 'status quo'. And the addiction is perpetuated.