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1. • • When alcohol or other drugs alter the brain, they exaggerate and distort a individual's basic personality. Common effects of addiction on personality are self-centeredness, irresponsibility, and blaming people, places, and things for their suffering.
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   Do drug use and addiction affect a person's identity?

   • In Studies 2–6, we investigated the intuitive basis for this result, finding that lay judgments of altered identity as a consequence of drug use and addiction are driven primarily by perceived negative changes in the moral character of drug users, who are seen as having deviated from their good true selves.

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   Do addicts identify themselves as addicts?

   • Some addicts identify themselves as addicts (Pickard, 2018). The self-identification can explain in part why addicts use drugs despite negative consequences. For these individuals recovery requires forming a new identity involving study, work, or family roles to replace their former substance-using identity.

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   Is addiction a pathway of identity loss and gain?

   • The addiction experience has been conceptualized as a pathway of identity loss and gain: As individuals transition into addiction, the positive markers of identity (e.g., being a good parent) begin to diminish and are eventually displaced by new identities (e.g., fitting in with peer drug users; Best et al., 2016; Dingle et al., 2015 ).

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   How does addiction affect a person's personality?

   • However, once addiction occurs and the brain's reward circuitry is hijacked by alcohol and/or other drugs, many people's personalities are seriously altered. Common changes include increased self-centeredness, irresponsibility, and a tendency to blame external factors for one's failures and suffering.

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   What is an addict identity?

   • An addict identity can also function as a psychological defence mechanism – a barrier protecting against the experience of looking inwards and finding, not a stable, core sense of self as positive and morally good, but only a dark and empty void where that self should be.

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   How does alcoholism and drug addiction affect a person's personality?

   • When people suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction do successfully enter a program of recovery, the change in their personality reveals the degree to which addictive substances have distorted and exaggerated their basic character.

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   Feb 3, 2019 · In a similar vein, addiction represents an identity loss, and that overcoming such loss requires some form of identity reconstruction. Some addicts identify themselves as addicts (Pickard,...

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7. journals.sagepub.com › doi › full“I Was Raised in Addiction”: Constructions of the Self and ...

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   Aug 17, 2020 · Identity (as a social process) has legitimate implications for health outcomes among people who use drugs (PWUDs). The addiction experience has been conceptualized as a pathway of identity loss and gain: As individuals transition into addiction, the positive markers of identity (e.g., being a good parent) begin to diminish and are eventually ...

   • Author: Adams L. Sibley, Christine A. Schalkoff, Emma L. Richard, Hannah M. Piscalko, Daniel L. Brook, Kathr...

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   Jul 7, 2020 · To do this, we examined the associations between usage of seven types of drugs (tobacco, alcohol, sedatives, soft drugs, XTC, hallucinogens, and hard drugs) and the Big Five personality traits, life satisfaction, and self-esteem in a representative sample of the Dutch population.

   • Author: Lara Kroencke, Lara Kroencke, Niclas Kuper, Niclas Kuper, Wiebke Bleidorn, Jaap Denissen

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   Feb 10, 2020 · The aim of this paper has been to establish that we cannot understand and address addiction without taking seriously the value of drugs – in general, and, for some people, in particular for their sense of self and social identity.

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    Apr 23, 2019 · Then, we ask whether addiction might affect people’s judgments about identity persistence: the extent to which an individual is seen as the same person over time, despite changes in such personal characteristics.