Addiction can happen to anyone, through a subtle process whose bonds are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken

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• A builder asked to addict users should leave, because there are always other jobs and no amount of money is worth tearing up the fabric of a society. TFTony Fadell7 Jun 2026Addiction
• Addiction is better understood as a symptom of trauma, social disconnection, depression or economic distress than as a disease in itself. MPMichael Pollan9 Jul 2021Addiction
• Addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a response to pain: the question is not why the addiction, but why the pain. GMGabor Mate5 Apr 2017Addiction
• An addiction is not ended by finding something better to put in its place; you do not stop a problem by replacing it. THThePrimeagen22 Mar 2025Addiction
• Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones. GMGabor Mate5 Apr 2017Addiction

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