AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychological addiction happens when the cravings for a drug are psychological or emotional. People who are psychologically addicted feel overcome by the desire to have a drug. They may lie or steal to get it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Drug craving is defined as an urge to continue substance abuse. Drug dependents use different terms to express their subjective feeling of craving.

Detailed explanation-3: -When you feel good that you have achieved something, it’s because you have a surge of dopamine in the brain. It’s possible, however, that you start craving more of this dopamine ‘reward’, which is caused by many pleasant experiences, including eating nice food, having sex, winning a game and earning money.

Detailed explanation-4: -Habituation is a condition in which the habitué desires. a drug but suffers no ill effects on its discontinuance. Addiction is a condition developed through the effects of. repeated actions of a drug such that its use becomes neces¬ sary and cessation of its action causes mental or physical.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hedonistic Addiction and Boredom. Hedonistic addiction is a type of addiction that comes not from a desire to suppress or dull a pain and thus escape it; rather it comes from an urge to experience pleasure or entertainment. Unfortunately that behavior is as addictive as any other activity that involves consuming drugs.