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How can stress play a role in a person's transition from social drug use to addicted drug use?

▸ Drug addicts experience a lot of stress from seeking, needing, and buying drugs, so it becomes more of a job than a social activity; once the fun no longer exists the potential for addiction increases.

▸ Social forces pressure a person to take drugs; the stress of these pressures leads to full-blown addiction.

▸ Taking drugs is a stressful activity, especially in a social context; eventually the person wants to just take the drugs alone, which leads to addiction.

▸ Drug-taking that began as a stress-relief mechanism becomes stressful due to the physiological effects on the body and mind; habitual drug-taking now becomes a way to manage this newly acquired stress.
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