Gambling
An Addictive Behavior with Health and Primary Care Implications
I feel like it’s easy to conflate addiction with chemical addiction specifically. Anything that releases endorphins in your body can become addictive.
Watching TV, playing video games, sweet foods, sex, etc, all have the potential to become addictive.
Addiction doesn’t really care about this kind of logic.
gambling isn’t an addiction, it’s a lifestyle.
Professionals disagree with you.
Like it’s in the definition lol.
I feel like it’s easy to conflate addiction with chemical addiction specifically. Anything that releases endorphins in your body can become addictive. Watching TV, playing video games, sweet foods, sex, etc, all have the potential to become addictive.
what’s next are you gonna claim thigh highs can be addictive? this has the same vibe as “water is addictive” or “you have an oxygen addiction”.
Gambling forms addiction in the same way as social media. It forms skinner boxes of sorts.