Addictions and Behaviours in Performance

Abstract

The study aims to provide information on addiction and behaviours. Addiction refers to the state of continuing to take a substance despite the fact that it causes mental, physical or social problems in the person, the inability to quit despite the desire to quit, and the inability to control the desire to take the substance. For many years, substance addiction was perceived as a moral problem, lack of willpower or personality weakness, but scientific advances show that addiction reflects a different reality. Today, addiction is recognised as a chronic brain disease and, like other chronic diseases with recovery and relapses, can be treated but not completely cured. Addiction can affect anyone. In other words, ‘anyone can be addicted’. Addiction is a disease of the brain and our brain may crave the substance from time to time, even if we do not want it. Depending on the type of substance used, the degree of purity, the duration of use and personal characteristics, addiction can develop in different ways. Therefore, we cannot predict when a person will become susceptible
to addiction.