ASNet Defining Addiction

This podcast briefly discusses the various characteristics of an addiction that are often used to define this condition. It argues that the primary characteristics that usually serve to define addiction unnecessarily complicate its definition and that a concise, 25-word-or-less definition of addiction suffices. The ASNet definition focuses on a single defining attribute -- the motivational strength of the drug -- from which the other characteristics of an addiction can be easily deduced using simple cause-effect logic. The primary learning objectives of this podcast are to: 1. Explain why our succinct definition of addiction is sufficient for most purposes, and 2. Discuss briefly some of the other characteristics of an addiction