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Addiction is a behavioral syndrome characterized by compulsive drug use despite negative consequences.
Like habits, these behaviors are insensitive to their outcome and persist despite negative consequences.
Drug addiction is a psychiatric disease state, wherein a drug is impulsively and compulsively self-administered despite negative consequences.
The most commonly accepted definition – the one used in psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM – can be summarized as "compulsive drug use despite negative consequences".
By fixating on fearing opioids, we are missing the more culpable factors that lead some people to keep using drugs despite negative consequences.
The hallmark of the disorder is that playing games overtakes other desires, and that it continues or escalates despite negative consequences.
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The most accepted definition of addiction used by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the DSM is basically compulsive drug use or other behavior that continues despite negative consequence.
Drug addiction is a chronic disorder characterized by compulsive drug-seeking behavior despite severe negative consequences.
But such a feeling can apply to all, but a compulsive buyer is obsessed with shopping despite experiencing negative consequences.
We live in a consumer society that encourages material gain as a representation of well-being and status, despite the negative consequences.
Again, there's nothing necessarily wrong with diversifying a product range in response to changes in an industry, but Maytag lost its nonprice position and pressed on in this direction despite the negative consequences of its new strategy.
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