Addiction today is more common than we dare to accept. Many types of addiction have become socially acceptable in these morally and spiritually bankrupt times. Good things, when misused, can turn into addictions.
What is Addiction?
It is a dependency on a particular substance or behaviour which is impossible to break without timely intervention. It destroys the person, demoralizes the family and all those associated with him.
Society has a general tendency to consider different kinds of substance abuse as addiction while ignoring certain behavior patterns that are equally addictive. Food, shopping, gambling, work, or sex can turn to behaviour addictions and create problems that are just as destructive as substance abuse.
Workaholics would be shocked if told that work is their addiction.
They believe that frenetic activity is good for mental health and wellbeing. People want to carve out positions of power and honour through their professional accomplishments. What starts as a worthy ambition soon grows into an addiction. Without work, they feel enervated and depressed.
