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Addiction

Addiction is a psychological and/or physical dependence on drugs, substances, or behaviors. Stimulants speed up brain-body communication while depressants slow down the central nervous system, both having significant effects on health. Tolerance, dependence, and withdrawal are key concepts related to addiction, describing the body's adaptation to substances, the inability to function without them, and the symptoms experienced when reducing use, respectively.

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Addiction

Addiction is a psychological and/or physical dependence on drugs, substances, or behaviors. Stimulants speed up brain-body communication while depressants slow down the central nervous system, both having significant effects on health. Tolerance, dependence, and withdrawal are key concepts related to addiction, describing the body's adaptation to substances, the inability to function without them, and the symptoms experienced when reducing use, respectively.

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Addiction

1. What is addiction?
Addiction is a state of psychological and/or physical dependence on the use of drugs
or other substances, such as alcohol, or on activities or behaviors, such as gambling.
2. What are stimulants?
Stimulants are a class of drugs that speed up messages travelling between the brain
and body. They can make a person feel more awake, alert, confident or energetic.1
Stimulants include:
 legal substances such as caffeine and nicotine
 illicit substances such as speed, ice or cocaine
3. What are depressants?
Depressants slow down the central nervous system instead of accelerating it, resulting
in a pleasurable, relaxing feeling. Depressants slow heart rate and respiration, which
is incredibly dangerous in high doses.
4. What is tolerance, dependence and withdrawal?
Tolerance
Drug tolerance occurs when someone abuses a substance over a long period. When
someone continuously abuses a substance, their body becomes used to it, meaning the
drug will stop having as much of an effect. When someone develops a tolerance to an
addictive substance, they will begin taking a higher dose to get the same effects as
before. Taking high doses of a substance may lead to many negative consequences.
Dependence
When someone abuses high doses of an addictive substance, they may develop a
dependence. Drug dependence refers to someone feeling like they cannot function
normally without the use of the substance. A drug dependence can be either physical
or psychological and can have many negative effects on someone’s life.
Withdrawal
A term used to describe the physical and mental symptoms that a person has when
they suddenly stop or cut back the use of an addictive substance, such as opiates and
opioids, nicotine products, or alcohol.

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