Addiction: More Than Just a Word

Alcohol is the most widely used medicine among adults. Most alcoholics are adults who grew up during their teenage years. Adults who do not have it seems to start with drinks all the time. "According to the regulations of the US Department of Health and Human Services, standard drinks are defined as 14 grams of pure alcohol" ("About Alcohol Abuse and Addiction"). 14 grams of alcohol is equivalent to 12 ounces of beer or 5 ounces of wine. There is no fixed amount of alcohol to judge whether a person is drinking.

Have you noticed the frequency of use of the word "addict"? Simply entering Google News, you will be amazed at how often that title is being used. Articles are full of drug addicts, sex addicts, gambling addicts, food addicts, shopping addicts, workaholics and internet addicts. "These people" are portrayed as uncontrollable and threaten the society that is often intercepted, imprisoned, treated, or otherwise blocked. But what if sick people are not sick at all? What if you suddenly noticed that you are one of them? Well, this is what happened to me. To prepare for this podcast, I noticed that I am a drug addict. I am an addict from other addicts, and he told my children. I am looking for a painful way to avoid lack of meaningful relationships, ways I do not get along with myself.

It is a common term that poisoning is mainly related to substances (drugs and alcohol), and sometimes it is regarded as a disease. The word addiction is often used in conversation. When I love chocolate, I often use the word poisoning, but in this case it is just a word expression. But for a long time there have been many controversies about the problem of adding other activities, except that the term drug is used for poisoning. In this case, Internet overuse, Internet addiction (IA). In order to add poisoning to a whole new level, many people would like to add Internet addiction to DSM-V (Manual of Diagnosis and Statistics of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition), but our needs, love, Desire, excessive use of the Internet is simply a kind of compulsion or addiction?