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Where once most addicts were considered weak and had only themselves to blame, times have changed, and addiction is now defined as a disease. 

However, as times change, the kinds of things we become addicted to change too, as does the number of people who fall victim to addiction.

Here, Stephen Cole looks at just how we become addicted, and the worrying scale of the world's addiction crisis.

 

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