Is there a difference between an addiction and a dependency?!
Question: Is there a difference between an addiction and a dependency!?
Answers:
YES!
Addiction is something you can't quit ie "This is the last time I get high" then you get high again anyway and just can't stop!.
Dependency means you will have some kind of withdraw symptoms from the drug!.
You can have ether one or both at the same time!. For example, a person may be addicted to weed but their body is not dependent on the drug!. Or a person may be on a doctor prescribed medication that if they quit taking they would have withdraw from!. Or they may be on heroin and be addicted and suffer withdraw if they quit!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Addiction is something you can't quit ie "This is the last time I get high" then you get high again anyway and just can't stop!.
Dependency means you will have some kind of withdraw symptoms from the drug!.
You can have ether one or both at the same time!. For example, a person may be addicted to weed but their body is not dependent on the drug!. Or a person may be on a doctor prescribed medication that if they quit taking they would have withdraw from!. Or they may be on heroin and be addicted and suffer withdraw if they quit!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
ADDICTION- compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful
1: the quality or state of being dependent; especially : the quality or state of being influenced or determined by or subject to another2: reliance, trust3: one that is relied on4 a: drug addiction <developed a dependence on painkillers> b: habituation 2b
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1: the quality or state of being dependent; especially : the quality or state of being influenced or determined by or subject to another2: reliance, trust3: one that is relied on4 a: drug addiction <developed a dependence on painkillers> b: habituation 2b
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Hmmm interesting question!. I feel the only difference is that the medical world has used the word dependency because it doesn't sound as bad as addiction!. However if you take the symptoms of both dependency and addiction and put them side by side, they are prob exactly the same!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
addiction = a condition when you addict to sth
dependency = a condition when you depend on sth/sb!. you can't live without it/them!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
dependency = a condition when you depend on sth/sb!. you can't live without it/them!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I believe that addiction is when you want "it" and dependency is when you need "it"!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Yeah!.!.!. addiction = your desperately want it, dependency = need it (but it doesn't mean that you want it)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
addiction is when you have a dependency to something!. SO NO NO DIFFERENCE!Www@Answer-Health@Com
No there both a choice people with addictions are dependant on whatever they are addicted to!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
good question cause i don't know right off hand i wonder if anyone can explain!.Www@Answer-Health@Com