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Early Warning Signs of Addiction
Early warning sign is something called the double life or the lying habit. It's very easy to minimize in our own minds how much and how often we're consuming our drug of choice. Craving is overwhelming feelings of wanting to use that can be manifested as intrusive thoughts of our drug but also as physiologic feelings like sweating,. stomach cramps suggested overwhelming panicky feeling if I don't use right now the world's going to come to an end. The other things are the you know just the four C's out of control use using more than we plan to on any given occasion, compulsive use where there's this level of automaticity where we're initiating use even though when we hadn't