People become addicted to experiences that protect them from life challenges they can’t deal with. It is not possible to say that any one thing causes addiction . Most kids who use drugs and alcohol don’t become addicted to them. ..

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Then there are the thousands of American soldiers who became heroin addicts during the Vietnam War. In an unrivalled demonstration of the effect of setting, a 1975 survey found that 88 percent of them simply stopped using the drug when they … And by addiction , Alexander means a great deal more than illegal drugs. There are the legal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, of course. Then there’s gambling , work, shopping, the Internet , and anorexia (“ addiction to starvation,” as …

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