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A topic that interested me the most on psychologytoday.com/topics/ was about addiction. The site listed many forms of addictions and the substances that cause them. These substances ranged from legal substances to illegal ones as well, such as alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, nicotine, and opiods. These cary different types of addictions such as mental addiction and physical addiction. The site also talked about addiction not being the end of your life and you can recover from your addiction.
Addiction is such an interesting topic to me because it is something that effects our daily lives. It can cause health problems, crime, and violence. Most people know some one who is or has been affected by addiction. Today there are many types of recovery programs in which an addicted person can enter. There are programs for all substances. The site also stated that it more people recover from addiction then stay addicted which surprised me.
If some one is physically addicted to......

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