How addictive can drugs be?!


Question: How addictive can drugs be?
I was looking into drugs and have heard many stories from friends about them but I was wondering how addictive these drugs are. I myself have to use oxazepam to get sleep and I have noticed I need a larger dosis to get the same effect but I never crave it nor would I do 'anything' to get it. Is that the same addiction that occurs with for example cocaine, heroin or crystal meth?

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Tolerance (the need to raise the dose) is largely due to physiological changes at the site of action of the drug. For example, morphine acts at opioid receptors which in very simple terms are inactivated when too much morphine has bound to these receptors. This means that more morphine is needed to get the same response as before because there are less places for it to bind to.

Addiction I don't know so much about, it is still a physiological problem but one which produces psychiological effects. When addicted to a substance like heroin there are changes in your brain which make it hard for you to function without it, hence the cravings. Drugs given for insomnia can produce addiction if you become reliant on them to go to sleep.

It seems that you are just building up a tolerance to the drug but luckily you are not reliant on it. As a previous answerer said, always consult your doctor before increasing your dose (some drugs have a fine line between therapeutic dose and toxic dose)

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Building up higher tolerance is a side effect of addiction, that's not the addiction itself. As far as comparing that to heroin, not even close, heroin is the most addictive drug period, once you're addicted you'll never fully recover. So to answer your question, no, it's not the same. You should be careful though, and definitely only use prescription drugs as advised, I would strongly advise against raising your dosage without consulting your physician.



It is a characteristic of a drug to be addictive. There is no exception to it.

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