Opiates Prescribed ☆ Addiction vs Dependence
Chronic painful diseases are treated with powerful doses of prescription opiates. You can be very disaplined taking only the prescribed dose but feel very real emotional swings, achiness, mental confusion, and other symptoms that can be difficult to endure due to a physical dependence of these drugs. The difference between physical addiction and physical dependence is;
☆Dependence are the physical symptoms you suffer but you retain the ability to always only take these meds as prescribed.
☆Addiction is these same symptoms but they can have a wider range of severity dye to a person's inability to refrain from taking more than the prescribed dose.
When taking these medications as your doctor has prescribed them, one can still have very serious mood swings inbetween doses as well as all of the other difficult symptoms and even end up with the same mindset of addicts.
These are very powerfully addictive mind altering medications that can and will break down the most dedicated disaplined person taking them properly.
Long term use can also take a devistating toll on your life even when taking opiates on as prescribed. The alternative are limited and may not control the pain enough to bare, but at some point life can begin to seem pointless and hopeless because living in severe pain can destroy your will, but the physical dependence ends up doing the same thing. It's a very sad situation when pain is making this choice for you.
