was i a drug addict?

depends how you define addiction, technically your not a drug addict, antidepressents aren't addictive in that sense, you do however have withdrawal symptoms if you have been taking them for a long time and stop suddenly. But, you don't develop tolerance and psychological dependence like you do with classically addictive substances like nicotine, alcohol, opioids etc.
 
Addiction in the medical sense requires a compulsive use of a substance, a craving for it; experiencing withdrawal symptoms or even being physiologically dependent on a substance, doesn't qualify someone as a drug addict by itself. I hear all the time of people being prescribed ssri's for years with no effect, and become frustrated with the doctors incompetence, there are many different drugs like MAOI's which are often much more effective. Just shows the importance of giving regular checkups to patients.
 
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You are NOT a drug addict - a drug addict, craves intoxication from drugs - it may be poly drug use but they live for the high. Addiction f's your head -

Now you're DEPENDENT (well not properly and not anymore) on drugs meaning you need them to function.

ADDICTION is not just the craving it's the damage done to the family, crime - the suffering.

Dependence just make sure you've got it always like food, air or you rot :P

Someone goes down the drug using road and winds up on Heroin, it starts with addiction (mentally craving it) - just thinking "why not?" - Heroin addiction is sorta like being black or gay, you don't know what it's like unless you've been through it and Heroin addicts will do near enough anything for thier drug of choice - they cannot go into withdrawal (now withdrawal is dependence - you need it to function). My friend moved within england and is on methadone and his DDU SAID THAT HIS NEW DDU WILL HAVE THE PAPER WORK and he can continue Methadone maintence. However the DDU messsed him and he'd been 50hr without his methadone, he was on a mission for his drug. He was checking trains, coaches and even renting a car out so he can drive 150mi and score brown (as his Meth screwed up) then 150mi back up - he was lucky and he told his GP and show how it's illegal the GP said and gave him an "emergency dose" so he never had to spend a day driving (in wd which is more dangerious than a mod dose of heroin). The missions people will go on though. that is addiction+dependence......

Now I mentioned heroin because he has two other friends OxyContin and Morphine - now these are the same ish thing but NOT street drugs but for pain relief. Now a random 30 year old woman has an accident sadly and HAS to be on strong pain killers for years-forever. She's not a addict assuming she takes them properly - however she is dependent but again that person could "abuse" them and be both dependent and addicted.

Here's another ADD?ADHD - the person needs rit/amphet (stimulent) to function, used proper it's almost a "dependence" however it's common kids abuse them, making them addicts.

You have a "mental problem" and you're going to your doctor for professional advice - there's nothing wrong there, no idea why but everyone I seem to know has or are on anti-dps because they seem to be the first thing doctors prescribe. I think abuse potential and cost are why they are easy.

I personally dislike SSRI's a lot, I have actually known someones friend who killed themselves - from what I know you don't feel angry or depressed but YOU ARE!!! so people can smash up plates in temper but in thier head they are happy. - I am not 100% on this though. I am also NOT dissiing these meds because they can work wonders for people (who real need them which is the same for ALL meds)
 
Of course you were a drug addict. Technically there are more people addicted to legal pharmaceuticals than illegal drugs. More people die from ONE pharma drug every year than all the deaths from all the illegal drugs combined. The only reason that the mind and mood altering pharma drugs are legal is because the the pharma industry has a big lobby and tries to make out as if they are for medical reasons.

But if you look at the side effects lists for some of the most heavily abused pharma drugs they read off like what you would expect from an illegal drug. Also when people go in to psychosis from pharma drugs and commit violent crimes or kill themselves it is often over looked, especially by the media, because they receive a lot of advertising from the pharma industry. But when someone falls over after smoking a joint then it makes the news and they try and make out as if illegal drugs are inherently bad for you and cause death and violence and other ills. When realy some of the illegal drugs are more harmless than ibuprofen.
 
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Some of the pharma addicts are a lot more hardcore than illegal drug addicts within rehabs. The pharma addicts look down on the street drugs as they see their addiction as a more clean and upmarket sort of addiction. Pharma addiction is not associted with crack dens and sleeping rough on the street etc. But in some cases pharma addiction can lead to same sort of problems that are commonly associated with illegal drug addictions, relationship problems, job problems, losing your house and family etc. All out mental and physical dependency. In some extreme cases people even resort to prostitution and theft of chemists to get their legal drug fixes.
 
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No, that's like saying a lot of people are drug addicts because they drink a lot of coffee or smoke

Well, I suppose it is but not in the sense that people think of as a 'drug addict'
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you don't need to have a needle hanging out of your arm to be a drug addict. Smokers / Alcholics / Caffeine-o-holics are actually drug addcits as they are all checmially addicted to their drug of choice whether its nicoteine, ethanol or caffeine.

Logn term use of certain prescription medicines leads to a state of addiction and is something that has been studied over many years. The only difference is that one is seen as being slightly more social accpetable as people addicted to prescribed drugs don't generally go around mugging people at knife point in order to obtain their next dose
 
Derek W said:
Can you explain that bit?
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I am saying people who are addicts need there fix it is who they are - they will crawl through swomps for there fix.

Being black, gay is something only gay people or black people TRUELY understand what it's like. I aint saying they are bad in anyway.

addiction is craving your dose like heroin or coke addics.

@ OP you where medicated and beame alittle dependent and withdraw you are NOT an addict.

addiction is complex it's how your life is and how itn affects you. It could be gauged on your behaver, how family are, your money outgoings and a lot of otherthings,

I WISH YOU WELL
 
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