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an intense desire to obtain an increasing amount of a particular substance to the exclusion of all other activities. It can be pharmaceuticals or street drugs of any kind, even a household chemical. |
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the compulsive consumption of alcohol despite negative consequences, a physical and mental dependency, and overwhelming preoccupation with consuming alcohol. |
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the preoccupation with, availability of, and the pleasure with ingesting food. There is a loss of control with consumption and a pre-occupation with body image for compulsive over-eaters, bulimics, and anorexia nervosa types. |
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the inability to abstain from tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco despite debilitating health factors. |
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the obsessive / compulsive acting out of negative sexual patterns and the dependence on romantic attachments and emotional dependency. |
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the inability to resist impulses to gamble leading to severe personal, social, and financial consequences. |
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increased tolerance of long online hours where withdrawal and unsuccessful efforts to control this behavior become a problem. |
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a pattern of criminal thinking. The inability to stop thinking about or acting out on illegal behaviors. Anything that if caught you may lose your freedom. |
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coping with distressing feelings by getting into a pattern of compulsive spending which leads to financial disaster. |
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the repetitive pattern of putting things off, starting but never finishing projects, and simply ignoring important responsibilities creating lasting negative consequences for yourself and others. |
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