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Addiction
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Addiction - an uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance such as a drug or alcohol.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Professor Carl Hart, of Columbia University, talks about the right way and the wrong way to define a drug addiction.
Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, discusses the differences in brain activity between drug addicts and drug users, in this video from BigThink:
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