Talk:Addiction

APA

The article is more than once stating American Psychological Association where as far as I can tell the context suggests American Psychiatric Association? EverSince (talk) 19:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Recovery

Should "Recovery movement" wikilink to Recovery model, or are the two somewhat different? The latter has tended to neglect the addiction aspect (partly my fault) but doens't have to I assume. EverSince (talk) 19:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikiaholics

What about Wikiaholics and Wikiaddiction? :-)

9IDLGT3IET (talk) 08:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Psychological Dependency

Beneath this paragraph are another two paragraphs that read as follows:

A person who is Physically dependent, but not psychologically dependent can have their dose slowly dropped until they are no longer dependent. However, if that person is psychologically dependent, they are still at serious risk for relapse into abuse and subsequent physical dependence. Psychological dependence does not have to be limited only to substances; even activities and behavioral patterns can be considered addictions, if they become uncontrollable, e.g. gambling, Internet addiction, computer addiction, sexual addiction / pornography addiction, reading, eating, self-harm, vandalism, drug addiction or work addiction.

Not only do these paragraphs not meet Wikipedia standards, but they also contain independent research and non-fact-based discussion. --70.44.70.194 (talk) 01:04, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Just passing by, but...

The addiction page is currently an article about World of Warcraft, and I doubt it's supposed to be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.245.133.34 (talk) 07:15, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

criteria addiction

Caretti, Craparo and La Barbera (2005) recently proposed a new definition of addiction. The authors states that addiction is “a syndromic condition characterized by a recurrent and reiterated search for pleasure derived from a specific dependence behavior, associated with abuse, craving, clinically significant stress, and compulsive dependence actions despite the possible negative consequences” (p. 17); they also discuss how the severity of addiction could be assessed considering the impact of obsessivity, impulsivity and compulsivity in generating and sustaining the dependence behaviors. The new rationale for the diagnosis of Addiction is described by the following criteria (La Barbera, Caretti, Craparo, 2005):

ADDICTION A. Persistent and recurrent behaviors of addiction. The behaviors are maladaptive and lead to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by five (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period: with at least two by (1), whose one is (c), two by (2) and one by (3). 1) Obsessivity a) recurrent thoughts and images about the experience of dependence, or ideas related to dependence (e.g. being totally absorbed in mentally reliving experiences of dependence happened in the past, fantasizing or planning about the future behaviours and experiences of dependence); b) the dependence thoughts or the images are intrusive and cause inappropriate tension and arousal, as well as clinically significant anxiety and discomfort; c) the subject is aware that dependence thoughts and images are produced by the mind, and they are not provoked by external stimuli. 2) Impulsivity a) restlessness, anxiety, irritability or distress when it’s not possible to enact the dependence behaviour; b) recurrent failure in resisting the inappropriate desires of dependence and self-regulating the impulses to enact the behavior of dependence. 3) Compulsivity a) the person feels obliged to enact repeatedly the dependence behavior, even against his or her own will, despite the negative consequences. b) the coercive addictive behaviours and actions are finalized to avoid or prevent states of mental and physic pain, or to alleviate a disphoric mood (e.g. feelings of irritability, impotence, guilt or shame).

B. Thoughts or behaviors related to the addiction occur frequently and repeatedly during the day, and they significantly interfere with normal habits, social functioning, activities and relationships. C. Thoughts and behaviors of addiction do not occur only during a maniac episode or in reason of a general medical condition.

Inside this work we propose a further teorical elaboration of Addictions on the basis of our researches about alexythimic, traumatic and dissociative aspects common to many different addictive behaviors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.225.27.208 (talk) 15:55, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Casual addiction

There's a section in this article marked "Casual Addiction." However, no references are provided in that section, and -- though I'm not a psychologist -- I'm a somewhat skeptical whether that's a valid scientific term. (Actually I tried to flag this yesterday but it probably wasnt a great idea to place a "^{[citation needed]}" tag within a section heading :) ) Thanks --71.111.205.22 (talk) 23:10, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Reward Circuit and Drug Addiction

I tried to copyedit some clarity, verifiablity and neutrality into this section but in the end I decided to remove it completely:
Reward Circuit and Drug Addiction
Understanding the reward circuit is critical in understanding addiction. The National Institute on Drug Abuse describes the reward circuit as a process that “links together a number of brain structures that control and regulate our ability to feel pleasure.” Feeling pleasure motivates us to repeat behaviors. In essence, the reward circuit has evolved within us to reward and encourage our natural behaviors that help ensure our survival, like eating and reproducing. Each time the reward system is stimulated the brain takes specific note of the activity. The more we engage in a pleasurable act the more we learn to repeat it, eventually without even thinking about it. The problem with illicit drugs is that they not only activate the reward circuit, they hijack it, producing more pleasurable feelings than our brains could possibly produce on their own. All illegal drugs target the brain’s reward system by flooding the circuit with dopamine. Dopamine is a specific neurotransmitter found in areas of the brain related to emotion, cognition, motivation, and specifically pleasure. Drugs over stimulate this system releasing anywhere from two to ten times the amount of dopamine as any natural reward. The pleasure felt from drug use then dwarfs that felt from naturally rewarding behaviors such as food, music, or sex, and explains why drugs are more addictive than these naturally rewarding acts. This powerful reward motivates people to take drugs again and again by producing the euphoric feelings sought by addicts. As humans we are wired to repeat actions by associating them with reward. This is ultimately, as NIDA describes, what “drive[s] the compulsive drug abuse that marks addiction.”
It was either removing it or plastering {{fact}} tags all over it. The paragraph is an inaccurate oversimplification of facts. It also jumps to conclusions without any source or ref. Not encyclopedic at all. It has been added to three articles (Addiction, Drug addiction, and Reward system) by what appears to be an SPA editor. Any comments? Yintaɳ  08:50, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Abortion addiction

Certain pro-life activists have highlighted the phenomenon of abortion addictions in certain women as evidence that abortion is very often not a choice, but rather that it is much closer to the status of a social pathology. It might a good thing if we could a least have a stub on this matter. [1] ADM (talk) 08:08, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Request Comment, St. Augustine's conversion

After spending time following the Article page Augustine of Hippo and Confessions (St. Augustine) and following the History of The Conversion of Saint Augustine in his original Confessions and references to his many writings as Bishop of Hippo, I discovered he went from an addict to being completely cured.

His steps on this journey show he stumbled upon the key to this. I'v used this study in my work situation to good effect.

The study and research would be my own original research and not entrable on a wikipedia article page, but then original confessions and steps themselves would be free of copyright.

I'v written on the talk pages of both article pages to this effect.

Anyone out there thinks like me or want to challenge me or my words?

MacOfJesus (talk) 13:31, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Having "computer addiction" in the beginning of the article is deceiving !

Since it is not sure if to include it as an addiction. Putting it in the same line as gambling addiction is problematic... Talgalili (talk) 20:41, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Positive / Negative addictions

Just added {{fact}} x 4. Would like too see citations on the concept of positive and negative addictions. Martinor (talk) 02:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Redir/disambig

Most of this page is redundant to other, better referenced articles. Does anybody object if I cut out the "Behavioral addiction" piece into its own article, and then disambiguate? --Arcadian (talk) 15:58, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

My gut instinct is this was not a good move. I wouldn't dice up an important topic into a separate low level articles that each read like a medical journal. --MarsRover (talk) 20:22, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I agree. -- Scarpy (talk) 04:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Exercise Addiction

The types of behavioral addiction could be greatly expanded on, like exercise addiction and the biological & psychological factors play their own adjacent roles.--Vkraft (talk) 06:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

SciAm resource

From Talk:Epigenetics ...

Epigenetics Offers New Clues to Mental Illness "Experience may contribute to mental illness in a surprising way: by causing "epigenetic" changes—ones that turn genes on or off without altering the genes themselves" Scientific American November 30, 2011 by Eric J. Nestler; excerpt ...

Studies in mice demonstrate a role for long-lasting epigenetic modifications in such disorders as addiction and depression. Epigenetic changes can also affect maternal behaviors in ways that reproduce the same behaviors in their offspring, even though the changes are not passed down through the germline.

99.181.134.134 (talk) 04:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

See Regulation of gene expression. 99.35.12.139 (talk) 06:08, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

potential resource

Every drug is the ‘deadliest drug,’ especially oxycodone vy Cassie Rodenberg Scientific American December 28, 2011

Internal links ...

• http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article1206405.ece
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000589/

99.181.147.68 (talk) 06:08, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvement

To improve this article you might want to consider including medical definition of what addiction is (i.e. the definition provided by the DSM). Also, you may want to include different theories of addiction, more comprehensive look at the different types of addiction, and treatment.

Dirkster07 (talk) 14:55, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Addiction Vs. dependence

this article continues to confuse the difference between addiction and dependency. The DSM IV added to this confusion when the decided to lose the term addiction in place of Dependence. They, Hopefully, will be putting it back in with the next revision coming out soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.103.182.92 (talk) 13:52, 5 March 2012 (UTC)