Addiction. It is a condition in which results when a person either ingests a substance or engages in an activity that can be pleasurable but the continuation can become compulsive and interfere with responsibilities and interests. People continue these pleasurable acts to be stressed free, feel good about themselves and escape from reality. The “high” that they receive is uncontrollable and satisfying. Angie Bachmann is addicted to gambling. She has made terrible choices which led her to bankruptcy and losing everything she has ever owned. From winning thousands to losing millions, Bachmann suffers a gambling addiction to which she could have stopped if she wanted too. Addiction is a free will and only the person that has it can put an end to it. Angie Bachmann should be held accountable for her gambling debt due to the fact that she knew the consequences and the risks of gambling. She let herself go and ended up the way she is now. Angie Bachmann is a stay home mom, mother …show more content…
His goal was to prove that drugs do not cause addiction, but it is the person's choice to be addicted. Two groups: one in a 200 square colony and another in a cramped cage were given plain water and another had morphine solution. The scientists ran a variety of experiments to test the rats willingness to consume the morphine solution in comparison to the rats in isolation. What they found was that the Rat Park, 200 square colony, resisted the morphine water and preferred the plain water. The rats in the cages that were given nothing but morphine water chose plain water once they moved to Rat Park, thus making a voluntarily withdrawal. They concluded that drugs do not cause additions but rather the condition that the person is