When we look up the word addiction in Wikipedia (yes Wikipedia. Everyone should be using it now, if not please do! Google and Wikipedia are the “now”, dictionary huh huh huh… Well I don’t know 🙂 this is what comes up:
Addiction is the continued use of a mood altering substance or behaviour despite adverse consequences or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction

This definition is a broad vue of the subject. If I had to explain it to someone from my country Côte d’Ivoire or simply someone who doesn’t have the faintest idea about this “fancy” habit (not to say illness), I would say now, it’s the way one individu is mentally shaped.
People suffering from an addiction or an addictive personality have a passionate tendency to do over and over again the same destroying thing which can be drinking alcohol, taking any kind of drugs, gambling (this one scares the shit out of me!!!), food (I must admit I am still struggling to understand and accept this one 🙁
The cocaine and heroine addict, will sniff lines after lines smoke pots after pots (I first wrote pod and tried to call Robin to double check but his phone was already switched off. Thank you Google!) and this despite the mix feelings the drug will give them. This applies to all the rest whatever the addiction. One has to wonder why they do do it. Is it a lack of intelligence in the sense that they don’t know it is bad for them, or a complete denial. Some people will say like I saw on Facebook when poor Amy Winehouse died, “She didn’t want to let go of the drink, well hopefully she will find some more where she goes now”. I did feel really annoyed when I read this, I even tried to explain the problem she had but in vain. We do not get it. It is beyond us. Maybe like addicts we are in denial or we simply refuse to understand it.

Ps: The readers will have to get used to my language I am afraid. Those who know me will just smile 😉