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Behavioural addiction: an issue for everybody?

Behavioural addiction: an issue for everybody? For many people the concept of addiction involves taking drugs. Therefore it is perhaps unsurprising that most official definitions concentrate on drug ingestion. Despite such definitions, there is now a growing movement which views a number of behaviours as potentially addictive, including many behaviours which do not involve the ingestion of a drug. But do behavioural addictions really exist? Answers this question by examining the various commonalities (psychological, sociological and cultural) between excessive behaviours (behavioural and chemical) and by drawing on the author’s own work into fruit‐machine addiction. Concludes that addictions are not just restricted to drug‐ingestion behaviours and that evidence is growing that excessive behaviours of all types do seem to have many commonalities. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Employee Counselling Today Emerald Publishing

Behavioural addiction: an issue for everybody?

Mark Griffiths
Employee Counselling Today , Volume 8 (3): 7 – Jun 1, 1996
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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © 1996 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
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0955-8217
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10.1108/13665629610116872
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Abstract

For many people the concept of addiction involves taking drugs. Therefore it is perhaps unsurprising that most official definitions concentrate on drug ingestion. Despite such definitions, there is now a growing movement which views a number of behaviours as potentially addictive, including many behaviours which do not involve the ingestion of a drug. But do behavioural addictions really exist? Answers this question by examining the various commonalities (psychological, sociological and cultural) between excessive behaviours (behavioural and chemical) and by drawing on the author’s own work into fruit‐machine addiction. Concludes that addictions are not just restricted to drug‐ingestion behaviours and that evidence is growing that excessive behaviours of all types do seem to have many commonalities.

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Employee Counselling Today – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jun 1, 1996

Keywords: Addicts; Gambling business; Individual behaviour; National cultures; Psychology; Sociology

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