What is "behavioral addiction"?

What is "behavioral addiction"?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: How is a behavioral addiction similar to a substance behavioral addiction?; What is an "addictive personality"?; What can be done about an addictive personality? and more...

Addictions are not neccessarily bad things, or at least they never intend to be bad things. They are ways people look to "elixers", I call them, to cope with life, bad feelings, bad events, and they're always adaptive at first.The way I define addiction is "an adaptation to life that has gone awry." What happens over time is that adaptation goes down a wrong road or a bad road or a "Y" and the person is locked into it.