What Are the Medically-Recognized Types of Addiction?
Question by grammar_cleopatra: What are the medically-recognized types of addiction?
Is there like an official medical list of the types of addictions (like drug addiction, nicotine addiction, etc)? Or can anything at all become addictive?
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Answer by sasu
Hello ,
Try this link it’s really very useful and has all addictions classified in alphabetical order .
Take care .
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