Can you be addicted to steroids?

[elfin1mf]

co-caine is a mental addiction. i know from personal experience along with medical studies

i believe AAS is the same way. you like how it makes you feel/look/get attention etc. so you keep using it.

Honestly I think it is an ambiguous line between physical and mental addictions. Cocaine for me was a physical addiction, the only one I ever had. I used it for 2 months because I had an abscess in my wisdom tooth. The pain was so terrible I resorted to calling an old friend turned drug addict for help. I only rubbed it on my tooth, once every 2-3 hours. I was not aware at the time, but the addiction can come just as powerful if not more so when applied to an abscessed tooth. When I ran out of coke, the pain seemed to come back even worse. I became psychotic. I threatened to kill a family member because "the pain is so bad" and they did not "understand". 3 days later the pain completely stopped and I was normal again. The worst addictions come from pain when you have no drugs left... This is why coke and opiates can have such immense effects on people who run out of ways of getting them after prolonged use. It can make a person completely insane to go from no pain at all in any way for months, to what.. in comparison.. feels like eternal hellfire unless you get more somehow. I can see how someone might do ANYTHING to get more... just to make the pain go away.

[dec11]

Honestly I think it is an ambiguous line between physical and mental addictions. Cocaine for me was a physical addiction, the only one I ever had. I used it for 2 months because I had an abscess in my wisdom tooth. The pain was so terrible I resorted to calling an old friend turned drug addict for help. I only rubbed it on my tooth, once every 2-3 hours. I was not aware at the time, but the addiction can come just as powerful if not more so when applied to an abscessed tooth. When I ran out of coke, the pain seemed to come back even worse. I became psychotic. I threatened to kill a family member because "the pain is so bad" and they did not "understand". 3 days later the pain completely stopped and I was normal again. The worst addictions come from pain when you have no drugs left... This is why coke and opiates can have such immense effects on people who run out of ways of getting them after prolonged use. It can make a person completely insane to go from no pain at all in any way for months, to what.. in comparison.. feels like eternal hellfire unless you get more somehow. I can see how someone might do ANYTHING to get more... just to make the pain go away.

neva heard of a dentist?

[sean_holland]

They are addictive psychologically. They become apart of your identity. Vanity is a big part of this. People identify themselves by their personal body image and what people see them as, so when you become a regular user your expectations to stay on par or get bigger becomes a driving force in your mentality.

As far as a physical addiction, its not the same as Cocaine, Opiates, Methamphetamine, Alcohol, Tobacco, etc because your withdrawal symptoms are not nearly as severe and your 'desire' to re-use isn't as much to satiate internal 'need' as other high-dependence substances.

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