Understanding the Complex Nature of Addiction

Addiction in itself is very complex, there are many components to comprehending how addiction can affect a person’s well-being and livelihood. There are times when a person is undoubtedly dependent, for example on food and water for survival. There are additional fundamentals in a person’s life they may feel are vital to their survival. Low on the scale of impairment is exercising, a person can become addicted to exercising, but there will not be extremely harmful consequences, unless taken way too far, unlike if the person were to become addicted to a harmful drug such as methamphetamine, that would negatively affect their life in an extreme way. Eventually, the substance becomes the most important object in the person’s life, and it is their

The pain in which people are avoiding can be psychological/ emotional, or physical. Hedonism can be acknowledged in two ways; the way the constitution stresses it is the ‘pursuit of happiness’, but some people do not use this as a way to better themselves. It is meant to be used as a means to better one’s self and strive for excellence. Whereas people use this as a reason to use substances to alleviate pain and discomfort stemming from a physical sensation, or from

When a person feels this way , and does not know how to cope, there are negative choices they make they believe will relieve them of the negative feelings. In addition to being negative, people who score high on the level of neuroticism are more impulsive. They are more likely to make irrational decisions without thinking them through, which can lead to them to the usage of drugs. It does take an addictive personality to become dependent on some type of substance, but when a person is struggling and negative about the outlook on life, it greatly increases the likelihood of addiction becoming predominant in their