That’s weird, that’s the opposite of what I was taught, which was that dependence was a psychological reliance on a drug and addiction was the body’s physical response and adjustment to the drug. Doing a quick google it seems like those terms have been switched, likely to take away some of the stigma due to the whole addiction is a disease thing.
That’s weird, that’s the opposite of what I was taught, which was that dependence was a psychological reliance on a drug and addiction was the body’s physical response and adjustment to the drug. Doing a quick google it seems like those terms have been switched, likely to take away some of the stigma due to the whole addiction is a disease thing.