"Addiction"

[BilZ0r]

And around grand-pa's arthritis -- there have been recent tensions over people in the US breaking the law in order to buy cheaper Canadian arthritis meds. If the NSAIDs were to become prohibitively expensive, isn't it possible that there would be violent crimes due to the difficulty of getting them?

Well yes, to an extent, but comeon, it's not going to happen on the same level, I mean, the feeling of really bad arthritis is going to make the feeling of the withdrawal from a meth binge feel like a holiday, yet I don't see the same kind of effect... and SSRI withdrawals, they can be as bad as pretty serious opioid withdrawals, people don't go nuts to get their prozac.

As you have cited, some drugs cause bad long term effects. Thus if you don't have urges to take them, then they are NOT addictive. But if you do, then they are addictive. The bad physical effects and the psychological effects of addiction are inseparable.

I just did seperate them. Some drugs give you withdrawals and are "psychologically addictive" and some drugs are psychologically addictive but have very limited withdrawal symptomes (nicotine).