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Your addiction changes the brain by altering its chemistry. A drug interferes with the natural processes of the brain. Because of this, it can cause the brain to become dependent on the drug to perform natural processes. This means if you stop taking the drug, the brains new set of natural processes get disrupted and that cause a craving, because the body and brain believe the need the drug to function properly; this causes an addiction.

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