Identify The Different Types Of Addiction

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When most people think about addiction, they tend to think about alcoholics and potheads. Although those are the most common types of addiction, there are other types of addictions. For example sex addicts and gambling. Every person has a form of addiction weather its food, cleaning, or television; they are all kinds of addictions. According to the oxford dictionary the definition of addiction is the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance. Some addictions are so extreme that it can destroy families, and cause someone to lose everything they ever had.

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