addictions

Fully legalize and you'll encounter this horrible scenario where big companies emerge to profit off addictions.

Sometimes these bad decisions cascade in a self-reinforcing cycle -- as with intoxication and intoxicant addictions.

There is promising research towards unifying all, or almost all, addictions with a single, coherent theory.

Dopamine plays a role (or, more accurately, different roles) in various addictions, but isn't the thing to which you are addicted.

There is a guideline that is used when identifying most addictions [1] since most patterns of behavior tend to be similar regardless of substance or activity that the person is addicted to.

Treating addictions has proven to be a notoriously difficult problem to solve, meaning prevention is a far higher priority than attempting to cure.

I don't know how large a segment of the population that might be, but addictions have to start somewhere.

Poor parenting can create bad habits, which yes can eventually become addictions.

My two parents also have alcohol addictions, which obviously doesn't help.

The only positive thing I have gained from smoking, is learning what addiction really means, therefore understanding other people's addictions better, and decidedly staying away from other addictive substances.

The super successful never actually get over their addictions.

All addictions are caused by identification with the thinking (verbal) mind, which is centred in the dominant hemisphere; they represent a misguided attempt to escape from that personality.

It isn't a "personality" thing (like other addictions which are purely psychological).

People like "shiny", as mobile phone addictions have proven.

I think the author is right about tangible things ("stuff") but could spend more time pointing out the intangible addictions: 1000+ RSS feed items to read, 100+ TV episodes to catch up on, 10+ news aggregators to check, 100+ new PNGs to arrow through, etc.