As usual, caffeine addiction is so common that it needs to either be explicitly excluded or else its inclusion pointed out so readers know how meaningless the results may be for what they think of as ‘chemical addiction’.
My original thought was to phrase it as “chemical addiction generally considered destructive”, but that’s problematic, too. What about sugar?
Sugar is incredibly destructive. It is a major, perhaps the major, cause of diabetes, heart diseases, obesity and other diseases of civilization.
*wants to change answer now*
As usual, caffeine addiction is so common that it needs to either be explicitly excluded or else its inclusion pointed out so readers know how meaningless the results may be for what they think of as ‘chemical addiction’.
My original thought was to phrase it as “chemical addiction generally considered destructive”, but that’s problematic, too. What about sugar?
Sugar is incredibly destructive. It is a major, perhaps the major, cause of diabetes, heart diseases, obesity and other diseases of civilization.
*wants to change answer now*