This article explained how addiction is not just all about the users pleasure receptors being stimulated but an individual's environment, social influences, and the individual them self, and not to mention if the person has an addictive personality.
People who have an addiction have activated pleasure centers in their brain activated when thinking about or doing their addiction whether it's a drug addiction or an addiction such as compulsive eating. Also, the article tells how only why a small percentage of drug users are addicts and that most people don't get addicted because of their drug metabolism in which is the way that the addict goes through withdrawal, some people get the sweats and not feel any pleasure due to lost dopamine receptors while other people might just have the drug or habit on their minds all the time.
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