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What are the risk factors?

Professor Mark Griffiths is one of the world’s leading experts on addiction. In this article he considers four of the key factors that increase the likelihood of having addiction problems

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Addiction is an incredibly complex behaviour and always results from an interaction and interplay between many factors, including genetics, psychological health and the social environment of an individual. There are some key risk factors in the development of addiction. This article focuses on the four risk factors listed in the AQA (A) specification:

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