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Addictions come from feedback loops that contain "mixed messages". You take a drink or a pill and feel better... for a while. Then you feel worse. So you take another drink or a pill. And so on. Short-term: feels good, long-term: feels bad. Because whatever felt good in the short-term was actually bad for you.

Here's an interesting blog by J. Timothy King about some of the addictions developers pick up: Check it out.