Addiction by Jessica lema

Addiction is one of the most common problems of these days. It's a dependence on a behavior or substance, that a person is powerless to stop.

There's two types of addiction : substance addiction and process addiction.

Substance addiction it's the abuse of the consumption of drugs, alcohol and smoking.

Process addiction it's when you spend too much time gambling, shopping , eating or using internet that starts to affect other areas of your life.

People become addictive to something for different reasons, such as problems in school or job, loss of a relationship, death of a love one or financial stresses. So they start trying an activity ( shopping, gambling, eating, internet...) or substance ( drugs,alcohol...) to satisfied their emotions and they start to feel so good and happy, that they start to abuse of one of these two type of addiction, and it's starts to affect their lives in many ways; Any addiction has in common the effects,such as lifestyle: they spend too much time with their addiction, financial: they spend too much money,they get broked , emotional : they want to satisfied their feelings.

Addiction could happen in any age ,race or social class...nobody is totaly free of it, the only way to prevent the addiction is with a good education for everybody, a familiy or friend support in bad times could help a lot.....