The nature of addiction

What is the nature of addiction?
Addiction can arise from many different pathologies, and varies in its strength, severity and manifestations. in your opinion, how should addiction be considered?
a bad habit?
a failure of healthy choices?
a failure of morality?
a symptom of other problems
a chronic disease?
What causes people to subject their bodies and minds to the harmful effects of non-medical and/or recreational drug use that often leads to drug addiction?
How should society deal with the issue of drug addiction? what types/forms of additional resources should be implemented to combat addiction? who should fund those resources?
Finally, in your opinion, why is drug use a more serious problem today than in the past?

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