Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't?

• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Addiction and dependence are two different things. You can be dependent without addiction or addicted without dependence. For one cannabis can make people addicted, but the myth from that is because it doesn’t really cause any sort of physical dependence.

  On the other hand lyrica etc benzos for example and especially opiates will cause physical dependence, and even if you don’t like want to take the pills, as in you don’t crave them, you’re not addicted to them, you may be dependent and then get withdrawal from quitting.

  Addiction can also cause withdrawal, but psychological withdrawal is a bit different than physical.

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whatever. Disagree with the dictionary:

    www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addiction

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I laugh at your puny knowledge of the subject

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction

      Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.

      neuropsychological disorder

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence

      Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual’s functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption of the drug.[1][2] A drug addiction, a distinct concept from substance dependence, is defined as compulsive, out-of-control drug use, despite negative consequences.[1][2] An addictive drug is a drug which is both rewarding and reinforcing.[

      biopsychological situation

      #A drug addiction, a distinct concept from substance dependence

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      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        despite substantial harm

        laugh at what now?

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