What you can get addicted to……

Addiction means that you feel that you have to do something again, and again and again’. Why some people get addicted to things is not absolutely clear. Although the form of addiction which people talk about is being ‘addicted to drugs (e.g tobacco, heroin, cocaine and crack are all very addictive drugs) , other people get addicted to all sorts of things like ‘spending money’, ‘reading books’, ‘having sex’ and many other things beside. Some addictions are therefore obviously worse than others in terms of the amount of harm the addiction causes!

Some people have a much greater tendency to getting addicted to things than others, but no one is absolutely sure why this is. It may just be part of normal human variation like some people being taller and others shorter.