Can you answer Chronic’s question about Addiction?:

I am witing something freelance and just wondering if anyone can give me an addequite difference between drug abuse and drug addiction.

The definition of an addict is: 1. To cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance
2. To occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively

Definition of drug abuse: he use of illegal drugs or the inappropriate use of legal drugs. The repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, to alleviate stress, or to alter or avoid reality (or all three).

The use of a drug for a purpose other than that for which it is normally prescribed or recommended.

the habitual misuse of a chemical substance

They are very similar definitions. Almost the same.

Why are people either classified as a drug abuser or a drug addict? Drug abusers don’t usually get the intese care an addict does. Remember, the definition for addic includes psychological addiction… not just physical.

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Can you answer Susana Sky’s question about Addiction?:

I attend two meetings a week in the evening as well. I lost my job because of my addiction, and am trying to rebuild my relationship with my wife.
I have been offered an excellent paying job that would require me to miss my meetings in the morning and work and commute 12 hours a day. I really need this job, but I am scared to death what this will do to me in terms of stress and loss of 12-step support. I am running out of money. What do you think I should do?

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