Thanks Laurie for pointing out that there's a difference between physical dependency and addiction! When you're physically dependent, like MOST of us are, you don't crave the drug ~ you aren't the kind that would do almost ANYTHING to get the drug. An addict would sell his own mother into slavery to get his drug of choice!! An addict CRAVES the drug and can think of nothing but getting his next fix.

It's true that we suffer withdrawals like an addict, but that's just because our body is used to the medication and it doesn't want to give it up. So we must wean off.

I highly resent when someone infers that I'm an addict. I'm not. thanks