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The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior
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Addiction broadly defined is the continued and compulsive consumption of a substance or behavior (gambling, gaming, sex) despite its harm to self and/or others.
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Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous: The Basic Text for The Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
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Tranquilizers, alcohol, and recreational drugs share these common features that tend to make them addictive: they reduce pain and anxiety; they sometimes create a temporary buoyancy, a temporary illusion of efficacy, power, and high self-esteem; and they tend to perpetuate just those behaviors that created the need for their use in the first place.