Compulsive use in addiction is characterized by mental preoccupation, narrowed focus, loss of pleasure in other activities, and inability to function without the substance or activity.

“so what does it mean compulsive use it means a lot of mental real estate occupied with thinking about using getting the drug maybe covering up drug use because other people don't approve um finding that other things are less Salient so a kind of narrowing of our focus on that particular activity a loss of joy and other things that we used to find pleasurable”