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Journal of Drugs Addiction & Therapeutics, cilt.5, sa.6, ss.1-5, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
The study aims to provide information on addiction and behaviours. Addiction refers to the state of continuing to take a substance despite the fact that
it causes mental, physical or social problems in the person, the inability to quit despite the desire to quit, and the inability to control the desire to take
the substance. For many years, substance addiction was perceived as a moral problem, lack of willpower or personality weakness, but scientific advances
show that addiction reflects a different reality. Today, addiction is recognised as a chronic brain disease and, like other chronic diseases with recovery and
relapses, can be treated but not completely cured. Addiction can affect anyone. In other words, ‘anyone can be addicted’. Addiction is a disease of the brain
and our brain may crave the substance from time to time, even if we do not want it. Depending on the type of substance used, the degree of purity, the
duration of use and personal characteristics, addiction can develop in different ways. Therefore, we cannot predict when a person will become susceptible
to addiction.