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?

  • @zxqwas
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    213 months 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.

      • @Nikelui
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        43 months ago

        Isn’t that the same thing?

          • irotsoma
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            23 months 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
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              13 months ago

              The context of fifth grade health class.

        • @potpotato
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          13 months ago

          That cat in the hat and that was that

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