Psychological mechanism of addiction

Biological and social mechanisms alone are not sufficient to create the phenomenon of addiction.

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For example nicotine alone can not lead to a state of dependency in a smoker or the effect of alcohol alone does not give the state of dependence. Mental characteristics of the subject come into play and are heavily involved in the addiction process.

In the psychological mechanism, the subject tries to replace his lack of affection by an object or activity in order to find pleasure and avoid pain. It is then the result of a loss of control of emotions or difficult to manage positive and negative emotions.

People at risk of addiction are often anxious people, depressed, with a lack of confidence, which is easily engaged with an object or act.