Addiction

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
— Augustin of Hippo, Confessions

Addiction is any behavior that gives temporary relief or pleasure, but in the long term causes harm, has some negative consequences and can’t be given up, despite those negative consequences; an attempt to overcome pain rooted in emptiness inside (restless heart) with something material from the outside, a dependence on materialistic sensuality for happiness and ease of suffering (passion).

Power Is an Addictive Drug

Impulsivity, Addiction, And The Passions — Hieromonk Alexis

Addiction | Wikipedia
Addictive personality | Wikipedia
Addiction psychology | Wikipedia

What Is Addiction?

Healing Ourselves and Healing the World: Consumerism and the Culture of Addiction

See — Consumerism, Desire, Maximus the Confessor, Politics, Economy

Law

See — Legalism (Addiction to Moralism, to Law), Protestantism

Pleasure

Addicted to Pleasure - BBC

Addicted to Pleasure - BBC One
Sugar
Opium
Tobacco
Whiskey

Addicted to Pleasure - BBC | YouTube
— “Hollywood actor Brian Cox embarks on a thought-provoking journey to uncover how Britain's commercial exploitation of sugar, opium, tobacco and alcohol hooked the rest of the world on an appetite for a good time.
Revealing the rich and controversial past of these addictive commodities, Brian shows how their trade and refinement not only helped give birth to the modern consumer economy, but redefined the world's relationship to health, diet and the pursuit of pleasure.”