Anyhow Title: Women Risk Risky Sex at Worst Time
Category: Health News
Created: 11/8/2007
Last Editorial Review: 11/8/2007 Terminology and usage

Decades ago addiction was a pharmacologic term that clearly referred to the use of a tolerance-inducing drug in sufficient quantity as to cause tolerance (the requirement that greater dosages of a given drug be used to produce an identical effect as time passes). With that definition, humans (and indeed all mammals) can become addicted to various drugs quickly. Almost at the same time, a lay definition of addiction developed. This definition referred to individuals who continued to use a given drug despite their own best interest. This latter definition is now thought of as a disease state by the medical community. wow… this is such a great idea