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Addiction affects both body and mind. As a result, various addictions can have numerous risk factors associated with them.
A risk factor is an indirect element of a disease; it is not a cause or symptom of it. While risk factors may compromise one's defenses against a disease, they do not in and or themselves imply anything. Alternately, the lack of risk factors does not inure one against a disease.
Some risk factors that can facilitate a person's slide into addiction include:
Some risk factors that can facilitate a person's slide into addiction include:
- A medical condition
- Anxiety may require benzodiazapines
- Pain may require opioids
- Depression from poor self-concept, obesity may initiate cocaine use
- Family history of addiction
- Fatigue: exhaustion can lead a person to desire amphetamines
Risk factors differ for different drugs. For singular descriptions, please refer to the appropriate page on our website.
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