Dependence is produced when not assuming the drug makes arise an abstinence syndrome; if this appears with serious and painful physical symptoms, like for opium drugs (opium, heroin and morphine) and sometimes fatal, like for alcohol or barbiturates, the dependence is PHYSICAL.

If psychological symptoms appear, the dependence is PSYCHOLOGICAL, a not clearly understood biologic phenomenon .
Some drugs, like hemp, produce scarce physical dependence; nevertheless, the psychological dependence remains strong, causing an impulse to consume it continually and increase the doses, to feel again the positive feelings or eliminate those even unpleasant and is more intense than the physical dependence.
The psychological dependence is just the cause of the relapse in drug use after a treatment for addiction.

Every abuse drug has its own set of symptoms and, for most of drugs, the dependence makes the subjects socially dangerous, because they loose every inhibition and scruple and they' re ready to make everything, up to crimes, to get other drug doses.
This, also against their closest persons (family, friends); many are the cases of heroin addicted who make continuous violence and treats against their old parents to get from them more and more money for that cursed poison.
Sometimes, they even kill their parents or they are killed by their desperate parents.

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