Being addicted to a drug means you need the drug to function or you will go into withdrawals and be very sick without it.
What Does It Mean To Be Addicted To A Drug?
When you feel like you NEED this drug, you may have an addiction problem. You HAVE to have it, EVERY DAY. Alcoholics have to have a drink every day. Shopoholics have buy things constantly to get a rush from their purchases. Its this constant urge nagging at you and when it is something as strong as heroine or crack, cocaine - the urge is also a physical one. And if you don't get it, you have physical withdrawal symptoms.
It means that you have conditioned yourself and rely on whatever source it is to maintain a type of normalacy by which it has created.Its no longer a want its a need.
It means you can't stop using drugs and you use all your money on it
You can't stop using... You have withdraws..