CHARACTERISTICS

Question 1

What is addiction?

Answer 1

Physical and psychological inability to stop consuming substances or to engage in behaviours that may cause physical and psychological harm

Question 2

Griffiths Criteria of Addiction (6) (The Monkeys Squealed Crazily Whilst Rampaging)

Answer 2

1. Tolerance
2. Mood modification
3. Salience
4. Conflict (with self/ others)
5. Withdrawal symptoms
6. Relapse

Question 3

What are impulse control disorders?

Answer 3

A disorder characterised by the inability to resist the sudden and forceful urge to do something that is out of their control, which may harm others, themselves or violate social norms

e. g gambling disorder
- pyromania
- kleptomania