Misty
You don't have to be "an addict" (behaviorally) in order for your body to become GROSSLY dependent on opiates (for me it was specifically OxyContin) that I was prescribed for pain associated with cancer and treatment. The dependency/addiction happens even when taking it exactly as prescribed. Your body itself becomes addicted. Eventually, the dose that used to work doesn't, so it gets increased, and so on. I never understood how people became "addicts" until my experience with Oxy. It's a horribly addicting drug that's prescribed daily that people become addicted to and it's not necessarily because they're some "freak" or drug addict piece of trash.