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Addiction is caused by changes brought about in the brain by drug use, which cause the individual to need the drug in order to function.

"Allergy" was the explanation used in the mid-20th Century, when we knew much less about addiction than we know today. While there is some genetic predisposition to addiction -- especially to alcohol -- addiction does not qualify as an allergy, which is an abnormal response of the immune system with an entirely different mechanism.

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