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Causes of Addiction

Among the many factors that have been shown to influence the development of an addiction are feelings about oneself, emotional state, quality of family relationships, social ties, community attributes, employment status, stress reactivity and coping skills, physical or emotional pain, personality traits, educational opportunities, compelling goals and progress toward them, opportunities for and access to rewards in life, as well as physiological responses. While no factor predominates, each exerts some degree of influence.

Causes of Addiction

There are many theories about the causes of addiction, the use and abuse of legal and illegal psychoactive substances. Biology, psychology, and social and cultural elements all play a role in the enormously complex causal bouquet that results in addiction, and different theories weight the elements differently. Together they reflect the fact that there is no one path to addiction, and no one factor makes addiction an inevitable outcome. Addiction can’t happen without exposure to agents, but that is hardly the determining factor. Addiction is not a property of the substance ingested or activity engaged in.

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