Dependency vs. Addiction: How to Know If You’ve Crossed the Line

The Doctor Weighs In
7 min readMar 25, 2021

By Abbas Sina, MD

Setting aside rational thinking, self-preservation, and being willing to take more risks, may mean you’ve moved from dependency to addiction.

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With so much attention focused on the opioid addiction crisis1, many doctors are reluctant to prescribe prescription pain medications and many people are reluctant to…

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