An addiction to prescribed medication is when you abuse that medication. If you follow Dr's orders, it is not an addiction. It's another thing if you use the wrong kind of medication to acheive the wrong results, i.e., alcohol, pot and OTC meds for a different illness.

How would you expect a carpenter to do his work without his tools; his hammer, nails, saw? You wouldn't, would you? So what is wrong with using the tools that are set before you so that you can live your life?