Addiction is considered to be a chronic dependence on a substance such as, nicotine, drugs, or alcohol. An addict is aware to the harmful effects of such substances, but continuously seek the substance and use. Although addiction is often associated with street drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine, people in society today are also becoming addicted to prescription medication, and compulsive gambling. Addiction was considered to be the result of moral and ethical failure, a addicts choice to be substantially dependent upon a substance, until recently. Due to the advances in today’s neuroscience, understanding addiction has greatly improved, and tests have shown addiction to be a brain disease. When it comes to health issues in the United States, addiction is shown to be the most serious. Tobacco addiction contributes to more than 440,000 deaths annually, and the medical, social, and economic cost of addiction in the U.S. are approximately $500 million per year(OPOC, Addiction.) Needless to say, these are a couple of the reasons America frowns upon addiction. Another reason maybe how an addict carries one’s self while under the influence, compared to a person of sobriety. An addict is less likely to be considerate of the morally right and wrongs things to do in given situations. A person’s brain develops in a manner to ensure that an individual will repeat the behaviors necessary for survival. The brain associates these behaviors with the feeling of pleasure. Dopamine is a chemical in the brain, or neurotransmitter, that the brain associates with these feelings. Addictive substances cause a person’s brain to be overstimulated with this neurotransmitter. The dopamine in the brain can increase up to ten times when an addict uses, but when the addict doesn’t have what causes the euphoria the brain stops making as many of the neurotransmitters. This makes a person’s feeling of well-being disappear, which causes the yearning t