The 12-step model addresses the spiritual, physical, and emotional components of suffering from a behavioral addiction.

There is disagreement as to the exact nature of behavioral addiction or dependency.

Both process addiction and behavioral addiction have many dimensions causing disarray in many aspects of the addicts' life.

It has many parallels to other forms of behavioral addiction, such as addiction to drugs or gambling, which create an altered mental state in the subject.

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Various behavioral addictions, such as gambling addiction, may be classed as a disorder.

No medications have been approved for the treatment of behavioral addictions.

Most research has focused on adult population or on college students, but little is known about epidemiology of behavioral addictions in adolescence.

Another form of behavior that is still being investigated is obsessive sun tanning as a behavioral addiction.

A chemical addiction refers to a physical substance dependence where a behavioral addiction involves a psychological dependence.