### condition:

Addiction
* All addictions are mind-body problems
  - sinful attempts to anesthetize life when our lives seem out of control
  - have their rituals, which become almost as important as the substance itself
* More Addiction complex problem with multiple causes.
* Most addiction affects individuals.
* Most addictions are difficult to overcome alone
  - have a psychological aspect
* Some addiction contributes to addiction
  - drug addiction
* Some addictions are chemical based, while others are emotionally based
  - harder than others to overcome
* Some addictions are more common among persons of different categories
  - in one sex or the other, but no group is immune
  - worse than others.
  * takes place when the addictive element enters the body. Once under this control, the consumer does not have a completely free will, and listens to the addiction's bidding
* affects families, work places, value systems, and society as a whole
  - whole families
* afflict many men and women across all walks of life.
* also can place people at increased risk for a wide variety of other illnesses
  - has to be recognized as a result of many biobehavioral factors
  - includes nicotine, food, sweets, eating disorders and so on
* always flourishes where there high level of despair and hopelessness.
* are a way to avoid or relieve stress
  - actually compulsions
  - always highly karmic in nature
  - characterized by increased cravings
  - compulsive, and involve no deep seated motivations in the subconscious
  - difficult to break because they seem to ease the pain
  - easier to deal with earlier in their process of development
  - hard to overcome
  - illnesses resulting from social sins
  - of the same ilk
  - often excuses for unacceptable behavior
  - progressive illnesses
  - really a form of idolatry
  - sicknesses that are caused by the sin of voluntary excessive drinking or drug use
  - usually destructive
* arise out of misguided responses to the deepest spiritual yearnings of our soul.
* become harmful when attention to family, friends and work suffer as a result.
* becomes a way to escape the social economic problems they face.
* begins as abuse , or each single use of a substance like marijuana or cocaine
  - usage of a substance like marijuana or cocaine
* biologic disease with a genetic basis.
* biological, psychological and social process.
* blind, ceaseless pursuit of the drug, in an obsessive-compulsive rush to stay high.
* brain disease that changes a person's neurochemistry
  - disorder in the sense that reward mechanisms and decision-making are impaired
* bring tragic consequences that are hard to overcome.
* can be a chief symptom for how that disharmony can become expressed in our lives
  - cultural and sometimes ethnic in nature
  - healthy or unhealthy
  - immediate in young people experimenting, they are in denial they have a problem
  - physical or mental, and they usually affect both victim and family
  - physical, psychological, or both
  - to substances, persons, or behaviors
  - begin as a way to cope with uncomfortable situations
  - come in many forms, one of which is substance addiction
  - happen to men and women and writers alike
  - include both physiological and psychological dependence
* can lead to depression, while depression can lead to any form of addiction
  - malnutrition and hepatitis
  - strike families of any background
* cause repeated behavioral problems and activity of use take up a lot of a persons time.
* causes a desire to smoke
  - the addict to surrender freedom
* changes the brain, disturbing the normal hierarchy of needs and desires.
* choice and a decision.
* chosen lifestyle.
* chronic condition, and relapse is always possible
  - disorder that requires long term treatment
  - illness just like diabetes
  - relapsing disorder
* chronic, often relapsing illness, like many other illnesses.
* chronic, progressive, relapsing brain disease
* chronic, relapsing brain disease that is treatable
* come in all shapes and sizes.
* comes from trying to deal with anxiety in ineffectual ways
* complex disease that involves both behavior and biology
  - problem that deals with the environmental aspects of the patient
* complicated and seductive disease
  - process that is described by tolerance, dependence and withdrawal
* connects social habits with behaviors that all too easily trigger a relapse.
* continues to be a serious issue for individuals, families, and our society.
* costly problem which has economic, social, and psychological consequences.
* create problems that lead to desperation.
* creates impaired health, harmful behaviors, and major economic and social burdens.
* crippling affliction.
* crisis in life and a life in crisis.
* describes the compulsive craving for a drug's psychoactive effects.
* disease of the body, mind, and spirit
  - requiring long-term care and watchfullness
* disease that can treated just like diabetes, heart conditions and other diseases
  - effects the entire family
  - ends in either recovery or death
  - exists on a continuum, meaning that it progressive disorder
  - knows nothing about class, race, age
* disease which becomes worse over time
  - preys on the poor and the culturally suppressed
  - which, without recovery, ends in jails, institutions and death
  - with particularly nasty consequences
* disease, and a genetic disease at that
  - recovery very difficult process
  - there is no cure, yet
* do wreak havoc on friends, relatives, and workmates.
* does begin with drug abuse, when an individual makes a conscious choice to use drugs.
* downward spiral.
* effects everyone in the family.
* family disease.
* form of duress
  - problem-solving for the individual
* fuels the drug trade which rots societies both from inside and out.
* happen in clusters.
* has a complex psychological component to it
  - many characteristics of a chronic illness
* has more to do with a behavior than a substance
  - environments people live in than with the drugs they are addicted to
  - physical, psychological, social-familial and spiritual aspects
* have a strong spiritual component
  - some affect on the physical body that pleasure arises from for the addicted
* help avoid pain and intimacy.
* hide the hurt and bury the pain.
* is a, well, affliction, hornets on a breast of chicken
  - accompanied by denial, shame, guilt and an attempt to rationalize the situation
  - addiction is addiction
* is also a form of passion
  - possible with the use of stimulants
  - the one disease that requires self-diagnosis
  - always an expression of a whole life-style and an accumulation of behavioral steps
  - an award
* is an equal opportunity and a bi-partisan illness
  - equal-opportunity problem
  - equalizer
  - explanation which tries to explain why people do certain things
  - illness that society has injected into the vains of the poor
  - incurable disease that can be treated with methadone, combined with counseling
  - inherited biological disorder
  - unconscious ritual
  - unintended consequence of evolution of the brain
  - analyzed as a psychological, social, and biological process
  - both a physical and psychological process
* is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite negative consequences
  - relapses
  - chronic in nature
  - common, and in the U.S., abuse of prescription drugs is almost twice that of cocaine
  - commonly an inherited trait
* is considered a disability
  - definitely treatable in older adults
  - differentiated from psychological dependence and physical dependence
  - drug seeking behavior that is destructive
  - fundamentally a brain disease
  - in fact very rare in patients with chronic pain
  - like a cancer that begins to subtly replace healthy cells with malignant growth
  - marked by denial, delusion, defiance and defensiveness
  - modeled as an unobserved stock that accumulates stochastically
  - more of a health problem than a criminal act
* is no excuse for illegal behavior associated with obtaining drugs
  - respector of persons
  - now blatant on people's faces, especially in the lower working class
* is often a consequence of untreated depression
  - replacement for parental domination and control
  - the only pleasure they've known
* is one of the most serious health issues facing our twenty-first century culture
  - way of falling over the edge
  - overwhelmingly a rural phenomenon and concentrated in the north of the country
  - part emotional, part physical, all disease
  - psychologic dependence on an opioid for effects other than pain relief
  - rare in children but a problem with adults
  - slavery
  - so popular because idolatry is as popular today as it was in biblical times
* is the body's way of coping with repeated doses of harmful substances
  - compulsive use of habit-forming drugs for their pleasurable effects
  - concern and fear of most patients and doctors
  - dependence, both physiologically and emotionally, upon alcohol, drugs, or tobacco
  - excitement of pursuing adventure of work
  - first stage of alcoholism
  - land of compulsive urges that are repeated, and repeated
  - loss of control associated with taking a drug
  - major public health issue of our time
  - number one health problem in America - and no disease costs society more
  - quality or state of being addicted
  - result of an adaptive mechanism being abused
  - toughest social problem
  - thus equivalent to idolatry and the two terms describe the nature of human sin
  - treated as a family disease, including working with children during the family program
  - usually about two things, either escape or pleasure
  - willful misbehavior
* kills ninety-five percent of the people who have it.
* knows no bounds of race, class, geography or gender.
* leads to a disturbance of lifestyle in which adequate nourishment is neglected
  - crimes such as burglaries, robberies, domestic violence, and prostitution
* lifelong illness.
* loss of individuality, the inability to live real life, to have our own life.
* major factor in the use of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and amphetamines
  - risk of using illegal and controlled prescription drugs
* manifest as urges.
* means a dysfunctional use of a drug that has taken control of a person's life
  - having no control over whether to use a drug
* medical problem that is treatable.
* moral condition as well as a medical one.
* necessarily lead to slavery.
* negatively affects and can destroy the spiritual life of a family.
* numb the senses.
* occurs because of multiple risk factors.
* occurs when a substance is required to maintain basic functioning
  - repeated doses of opioids begin to lose effectiveness
  - there is an imbalance that affects neurons in the brain's reward areas
* often begins at an early age, other statistics show
  - creates an unstable family environment
  - lead to guilt and shame, and addicts do their best to hide their problem
* physical but also a psychological phenomenon.
* physical, mental and spiritual disease that affects every area of a persons life
  - mental, and spiritual disease that can affect every area of life
* presumably disrupts the brain's ability to make sound choices.
* primary, progressive, and fatal illness which responds to medical treatment.
* process rather than an event.
* progressive disease that can be fatal
  - only gets worse
* progressive, predictable and ultimately fatal disease if left untreated.
* psychological problem manifested by drug-seeking behavior
  - that compels people to abuse pain drugs
* reaches kids as young as ten years old through a trendy drug called ecstasy.
* resembles apathy when escape replaces reality.
* restrict our ability to dream beautiful dreams.
* result in a combination of factors including biological, psychological and social.
* reversal of healthy aims.
* robs our society of people who can lead productive and useful lives.
* serious illness.
* slave-master that destroys lives, families and spirits.
* slow seduction.
* state of chemically-enhanced stupidity which can be overcome by abstinence.
* stem from dysfunction in the brain's reward system.
* subject that seems to be featured heavily in media publications and on television.
* takes many forms, and usually has the same results
  - our pride, self-esteem, family, loved ones, and even our desire to live
* takes place faster than any other drug
* tragic reality that strikes individuals, families and affects communities.
* treatable disease.
* treatable, though chronic and relapsing, disease.
* typically lead to antisocial behavior, destroy families, and promote criminal acts.
* usually leads to malnutrition and weight loss.
* very broad term
  - common fear of people who take narcotics for pain relief