Part one of term paper
Before we can even start analyzing the different factors that influence addiction, we need to have a working definition of this psychological disease. Addiction is said to be an involuntary need to use drugs, and the inability to stop or curb the usage regardless of the severe consequences that plague addict’s lives. The process, by w ...

Part two of term paper
... the route of administration, withdrawal symptoms, penalties of use, and psychiatric health influence this process. It is the influence of each of these biological and psychological factors that creates, maintains, and subsequently sustains addiction. The availability of the drugs play the most prominent role in the addiction process. Simply stated, if drugs and/or alcohol did not exist there couldn’t conceivably be a drug addiction. Nevertheless, drugs and alcohol do exist, so it isn’t th ...