Describing addiction

• What is withdrawal in the definition of addiction?

  When patients stops taking the addictive substance, they experience negative symptoms such as nausea and bodily shakes.
• Define Tolerance in addiction

  Occurs when dosages of the drug do not produce the desired results and larger doses are required to feel the same effects because the body is adapting to the drug.
• Define psychical dependence in addiction

  Physical dependence is the bodies inability to function normally without the drug, thus causing physiological changes.
• Define psychological dependence in addiction

  Patient experiences compulsions to acquire the drug in order to experience the pleasurable effects again