BH
Addiction is technically self medicating. For example there are people who like food and they over eat “when they are hungry. ” A food addict will eat even when he or she is not hungry but rather because he or she is in a bad, sad, angry… The thing is being used as an escape from a feeling. If you take a shot of whiskey whenever your day doesn’t go how u like you are an alcoholic. Addicts will abuse legal or non legal substances to the point where it interferes with their life. The key point is that they are not doing it for the pleasure of the thing but rather the escape from reality.