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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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    Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    At your puny knowledge of the subject; conflating addiction and dependence, which I just proved to you — with sources — are two distinct medical concepts. Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder, and dependence is a biopsychological situation.
    
    Did you miss this part here:
    
    A drug addiction, a distinct concept from substance dependence
    
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