What Is the Difference Between “dependent” and “addiction”?

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This question refers to the need, or use, of certain substances such as opiates.

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Abuse-Proof Prescription Painkillers May Spur Heroin Habit

Filed under: opiate addiction

The study of more than 2500 people with opioid dependence found a 17 percent drop in OxyContin abuse with the 2010 arrival of a formula that's harder to inhale or inject. During the same time period, heroin abuse doubled. "I think the message we have …
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OxyContin and Heroin Addiction on the South Shore

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“It's how your community takes those struggles, deals with it, and keeps going on,” Weymouth mayor Susan Key says in the opening moments of Narcotic Misconceptions, a new documentary about opiate addiction in Weymouth and across the South Shore.
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