Love Is an Addiction by Megan Kelley Hall Summary and Analysis

When first falling in love, one finds it hard to eat or sleep. New love is completely consuming. It sounds a lot like addiction. In "Crank," Kristina becomes addicted to a boyfriend and drugs at the same time making them truly interchangeable in her mind. Before drugs became an addiction, Kristina was being prepped for them. She felt abandoned by her family and was desperate to feel loved. She turned to drugs to fill the emptiness inside. But the more she used, the bigger the hole inside became. Her baby filled her emptiness for a time but as soon as she felt the need for the love of a man, she made what was for her a natural association to drugs.

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