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Addicted or dependent? Is there a difference? Would you sell your first born in order to buy drugs? If so you are an addict, plain and simple. Do you depend on your doctor to write presciptions to help manage and...read more
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by Debbie Kerr
Reality Bites I promised myself I would never tell this story until my kids were grown and had no real need for me anymore. . . until the day when I became a grandmother and my secrets could be kept behind doors not a...read more
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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 ...read more
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Caffeine is, by far, the most widely used and accepted mood-altering drug in the world today. Ninety percent of Americans generally consume fair amounts of caffeine every day. Recreationally, this highly addictive dru...read more
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Although I never intentionally hurt anyone, sold my child (or anyone's child, for that matter), or stole other people's belongings in order to obtain drugs, I was addicted to methamphetamine and Oxycontin. In fact, I used ...read more
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by Liberalady
As a lupus patient I am on two medications for pain and have been on them for over four years. I call myself addicted, my doctor calls me dependent for quality of life. I know logically that there is a difference but it ...read more
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Yes, I am a recovering addict. My drug of choice? was crystal Meth. Technically anyhow. You see that is the drug I preferred at the time I was "discovered" as having a problem. That was the drug I used at the time my cl...read more
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by Bettie Rulz
My dependance on speed pills is eye opening to all the things I was running from and literally running from. Taking pills made my mind shift to keep all the horrible thoughts from constantly popping up. I haven't taken pil...read more
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