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addiction is continuing to use a substance despite negative consequences... say your always broke because you buy to many drugs but yet you still spend all your money on them, or say your on probation and even though you may get in trouble you continue to risk it by using a drug anyway...
its not that you "need" it, you dont need anything really other than your basic things like food, water, shelter etc.., its just that you make a drug more important to you than anything else... you have to get high or else you feel like something is missing in your life... even though the drug is changing you and causing alot of problems and life would be better without it.
theres alot more to addiction than whether you need a drug or not, its a disease that has many characteristics that all addicts have
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