There are many things that people struggle with these days. There are many things that people struggled with but they did not know what it was. Nowadays we have this comfort that many of these phenomena have their own name. Indeed, we feel better when we can call our problems by name because it is simpler to find a help. One example of such a thing is addiction. We can notice that development of the term “addiction” is significant. In general it is defined as physiological or psychological dependence, but the concept is much more profound and we will try to explain it better in this essay. Dictionary.com offers the definition according to which addiction is “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming.” It is necessary to remark that the difference between habit and addiction is that the second one is something we cannot control. To better understanding the term, psychologists created a simple behavioral model which is consist of four C’s. Among them we have: losing of control, continuing using despite knowing harmful consequences, and compulsive use and craving. Moreover American Society of Addiction Medicine (2011) claims that “addiction is characterized by inability by consistently abstain impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationship and the dysfunctional emotional response.” As it was suggested above, an addiction can be both psychological and physical. The first one is about the pathological condition of the mind and being obsessed with a thing or activity. The consequences of using addictive objects are often harmful for an addicted person and people around him or her. On the other hand, physical addiction is connected with substances like alcohol, cigarette, drugs etc. without which the body of addicted person cannot function normally. As dyf