What Is the Difference Between Drug Habit and Drug Addiction?

Question by : What is the difference between drug habit and drug addiction?
we obviously all know what drug addiction is. – you can’t function properly without a drug. Your body and mind are so used to it, you need to use it regularly to feel good.

However, whats the difference between that and drug habit?

Best answer:

Answer by rosette
A habit for example could be a problem drinker. This means the person could stop if they wanted to or for certain times. An addiction is when a person cannot quit or has a very hard time doing so. In a drug addiction for example the body will react more to quitting although in both cases there will be health problems both in use and quitting.

What do you think? Answer below!

Baird: How misguided drug policies can have tragic results

Filed under: drug addiction

This sort of belief is one of the challenges we've faced in confronting failures in our drug policies. Tuesday's passage of initiatives in Washington state and Colorado to legalize recreational marijuana use offers promising signs that change is in the …
Read more on MetroWest Daily News

Overtaken by drugs panel

Filed under: drug addiction

After being kidnapped by her junkie friends and losing her son to her drug addiction, she decided to turn herself in. She recalls the moment she turned herself in to the police as, “the best day of my life.” At the end of the event, the room was silent …
Read more on Lariat Saddleback College

From Twitter:

RT @sbstayup: RT @sbstayup: “@TheFactsBook: Love is chemically similar to drug addiction.” – by mawwiissaa69_ (marissa vargas?)

From Twitter:

I’d hate to be twenty something and shit not have a job,home family,a drug addiction pathetic shit right there Specially picking up on teens – by AdyBabee (Ady Sandoval)