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submitted 1 month ago by kionite231@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

seriously! like how do you become addicted to coffee, I drink it regularly but I can't say I am caffeine addict or something. how one become a caffeine addict?

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[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Drink a few cups a day for a year and then cut back to no caffeine.

If you get a headache you were addicted.

[-] potpotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Nikelui@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] potpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Depends on context. If you're discussing it in a medical context, the terms are separate. Dependence refers specifically to the severity of the effects of stopping the drug, both physical and psychological. Addiction is more about the behavior of a person when exposed to the substances and is not as strictly defined of a term in a medical sense. But generally, dependence is a component addiction. So not all dependence results from addiction, but most definitions of addiction include some kind of dependence.

So, not the same thing, but also, outside of medical context, most people don't differentiate the terms and use the word addiction to refer to the dependence component of addiction.

[-] potpotato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The context of fifth grade health class.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

When the best part of waking up is folger’s in your cup that’s addiction

🎵

[-] potpotato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That cat in the hat and that was that

B U S T A R H Y M E S

[-] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Joke's on you, I have headaches either way!

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