Shopping addiction is the need or even the necessity to make purchases. This tendency was only described in the 20th century. Very often, the person suffering from it buys unnecessary, unplanned...
Dependence on another/another person is a disease, defined as the loss of one's own independence, one's own views to another person. It is a type of emotional dependence. This disease makes it...
Addiction to electronic devices is a disease that requires treatment, just like other addictions. Electronic devices of various kinds (computers, ipads, mobile phones, tablets, laptops, PM3 players)...
Legal highs are defined as a variety of psychoactive substances that cause a number of changes in a person's normal behaviour, their reactions to different situations, their perception of reality and...
Representatives of the opiates are heroin, opium, methadone and buprenorphine.
Most smokers are partially addicted to tobacco, but the degree of addiction can vary.
The most common hallucinogens include LSD, ketamine and psilocybin.
Psychoactive substance use is a cause of mental health problems and behavioural disorders. It is defined as a set of physiological, behavioural and cognitive phenomena dominated by the intake of a...
Codeine (methylmorphine) is a natural opium alkaloid. It can be easily extracted chemically from morphine and is its methyl derivative. It has a very strong effect on the central nervous system...
Workaholism is a type of psychological addiction. A workaholic feels an obsessive need to do work all the time.
There are 600 000 to 800 000 people in Poland who are dependent on alcohol. The amount and frequency of alcohol consumption is mainly influenced by social factors such as ease of purchase, low price,...
An addiction is an irresistible need to do a certain activity, to take specific drugs and to do certain things. The action of the addicted person becomes a compulsion. Every addiction is a disease....
Addiction is defined as an irresistible need/necessity to do a certain activity, to take a certain drug, to look, to move and more.
In the modern world, practically all of us are addicted to something. It is not only alcoholism and drug addiction that are serious threats, and problems are often linked to other persistent...
One of the subtypes of delusional syndrome is Otell's syndrome. It is also referred to, according to the symptoms the patient presents, as jealousy syndrome. There are many causes of its occurrence,...
Sedatives and sleeping pills, are drugs that are often used chronically due to their relatively rapid action of reducing the severity of symptoms of anxiety, restlessness or improving sleep. These...
The implementation of a special drug recovery programme in California has had moderate benefits.
The results of recent studies suggest that the magnitude of the adverse consequences of alcohol consumption by US citizens is decreasing over time.
A recently published report calls for the implementation of rules to limit alcohol consumption in England.
According to a recent study, alcohol abuse among Californians causes a loss of thousands of dollars per capita.