Yes you will be considered an addict by societies standards because YOU ARE AN ADDICT... Unless you live in a different universe than the rest of us, SUBOXONE IS AN OPIATE - and not only that but it has an extremely long half life. I have been taking it for 20 months and I have found that I am more addicted to SUBOXONE than I ever was to Heroin, Dilaudid, Fentanyl, etc... If you ever want to be able to get prescribed opiates other than Suboxone or basically any CI CII or CIII other than Suboxone then what you want to do is go to a bupe doctor and never allow them to share your medical info with any of your other Docs.
If you feel w/d symptoms when you discontinue taking opiates, YOU ARE AN ADDICT, and what society says about that doesn't really matter, you are still going to have to deal with opiate addiction on your own terms. I have extensively abused opiates and I now know that prolonged use of opiates, especially the ones with longer half life such as subs and methadone, will severely down regulate your neuro-transmitters and makes post acute withdrawal last for a very very long time.
If you really want to kick check out the opiate addendum by dr. David Arneson - you can find it on google and it deals with the neurochemical aspect of recovering from long term opiate addiction. A lot of recovery can be expedited by taking Vitamins / supplements / amino acids and adhering to a strict, healthy diet.
Best of luck to all of you in your personal battle with opiates, there is no "right way" to do this. Just understand that opiate maintenance therapy, especially with suboxone or methadone is a dangerous business and if you really want to kick, you are better off doing it with a taper off of an opiate with a shorter half life. In my experience that is what I have found.