In your opinion, what is the most difficult addiction to overcome?

Oxycontin.

I've never used it, but from what I've heard, addiction to Oxycontin is the most difficult to overcome. After the user no longer needs the pain-killer effect and he tries to stop, his brain screams, "AGHHHHH!! Don't you get it!!? We are still in major heavy pain here!!" if he fails to dope up.

Currently, a class-action lawsuit has been filed against the makers of Oxycontin because the addiction is so hard to break, and because long-term use causes many other problems. 25% of people who try to kick, die. Another 25% never really kick, but use methadone as a replacement.

Smoking:(

Being around drug users, I'd say:
1.) Nicotine
2.) Heroin
3.) Alcohol
4.) Benzodiazepines
5.) Cocaine- really hard to stop doing it, but there is not a whole lot of bad withdrawal affects and you feel so much better (and richer) immediately

There are others; don't know about meth addiction but I'd highly reccomend overcoming it if you use it

Having studied addictions and from my own personal experiences I know that nicotine is THE hardest drug to quit. It has psyhcological factors that can make an ex-smoker start up again after YEARS of non-smoking.

Smoking.

My addiction to breathing air. I keep trying to overcome it, but it's soo difficult! Seriously, quitting smoking was the hardest thing I ever did.

Answerbag.

I tried to quit twice, but nothing happened. I think I would be on AB as long as there is an AB.

Religion

Love.

Opiates-hands down.

the internet.

I think it is food addictions.

It's not like you can just walk away from food. You must have it and you must control it or your avoidance of it.

It would be like being a raging alcoholic and having to be able to control the addiction so that you only consumed the "right" amount. Or being a smoker and only being able to have half a cigarette 3 x's a day. Tough.

any hard core drug. then you have booz.

crack............never done it but my b/f is batteling that addiction right now, and trust me, i can tell its hard.......

Apparently crystal meth, which is 10 times more addictive than crack.

I would say bieng unreasonable and being too lazy to gather the information to learn to be reasonable.

Smoking for sure

Although it's not often considered an 'addiction' so to speak, eating disorders are extremely hard to overcome... Careful calculation of food and food rituals do become an addiction and it is VERY difficult to overcome.

Answerbag.

Nail biting and cuticle peeling.

You can throw away the cigarettes, you can toss the beer bottle... you can NOT cut off your hands!

Cigarettes were the hardest for me.

I believe the question should read, "what is the most difficult drug dependency to overcome?" There is no such thing as addiction medically, substance abuse and dependency can be diagnosed however. Generally when people use the word addiction, they are talking about withdrawal effects, which is a diagnostic criteria in substance dependence disorder.

However, discussing withdrawal, pharmacologists will undoubtedly say alcohol and similar chemicals have the most severe withdrawal. It is called delirium tremens. The name itself describes some of the symptoms: delirium, which can include hallucinations and other cognitive deficits, and trembling or shaking that can be as bad as convulsion and seizures.

The fact is that alcohol withdrawal can cause death while opiate withdrawal (which I saw on a number of other answers here) is only a matter of discomfort ranging in severity. The point is, you will not have a seizure from opiate (heroin, morphine Oxycontin) withdrawal and there is no risk of death from withdrawal either.

While few of you have likely tried heroin, or done it excessively, a number of you may have had morphine at the hospital. The only difference between the two drugs is that heroin crosses the blood brain barrier very easily, while morphine doesnt because it has a low lipid solubility. After reaching the brain, heroin is not a psychoactive chemical - it has no effect whatsoever until it is metabolized into morphine. The solubility does increase its potency by dose 10 times, yet it is essentially morphine pharmacodynamically.

Very few other drugs have significant physical withdrawal symptoms. Cocaine has none - there is some observed physical agitation but it is attributed to frustration at inability to procure the chemical.

On the other hand, some chemicals that also have significant withdrawal symptoms include benzodiazepines which work essentially in the same way as alcohol. Benzo's are anxiolytics or anti-anxiety drugs that are commonly prescribe (valium, xanax, klonapin). Benzo's have the same withdrawal symptoms of alcohol.

Lastly, nicotine is not easy to quit either, but i'm not going to go into that.

For me, that would be smoking.
I just really like to smoke.. I know it's bad for me, that's the only reason I would like to stop. Aside from money, it also costs a lot.

Nicotine!

Cigarettes
Booze
Scratching
Masturbation
Swearing

Loving, Its addicting and you cant stop loving because its hard to quit and thats what I love about love.

Smoking, religion, and work

Eating, drinking and smoking!!! LOL

Computer games. Especially the sims.

each person will have a different answer to that, the smoker will say smoking, the alcholic would say alcohol, the gambler would say gamnling, and so on !!

Sex

For me, always has been, and I guess always will be ... biting my nails! It makes me sick, thinking that I cannot kick this habit!

Any bad habit...smoking,alcohols,drugs,porn,... for the one who is addicted, that would make him feel as the most addicting and hard to quit, though we may judge one thing over other.

cigarettes.

Cocaine! :)

I've heard that you can get addicted to some other drugs more quickly but smoking is one of the hardest to quit.

I think other things are easier for addiction because I had to work at it to enjoy smoking. But, once I was addicted it took 35 years to quit.

For me & many others like Lipptcow it's smoking but I've never been addicted to anything else

Sin.

My 2 cents.

I saw this documentary once about Crystal Meth & it said that only 3% of addicts ever get clean.

eatting disorders and smoking. I've been through both.

Working... because nobody is going to stop someone who is a compulsive worker and there are no support groups. I used to work at my job 20 hours a day, 7 days a week. That's typical for someone who's been an engineer for NASA. One senior manager told me how for 22 years he worked every day including weekends taking only 2 half days off: One was when his son was born and the other was for Christmas when his son was 6. Other than that he worked a minimum of 16-hour days and many times wouldn't see his family for days when he stayed at work.

We have to remember that the theory of addiction being a genetic predisposition or a disease has been constantly challenged. Addiction is a repetitive behavior. If something rewards us, the brain will drive us to repeat that behavior. Most addiction is psychological. Gambling, for instance, is by far the most dangerous addiction. When I was growing up, my father was working 5 jobs (2 full-time and 3 part-time). During one of those jobs, he could clock in and take off for the race track without anyone noticing he was gone. Loan sharks would come to our house and threaten my father. They would dump out drawers looking for "numbers". Our home was remortgaged twice and had my mother not been the kind of survivor that she was, we would have been living out in the streets. Gambling is a deadly addiction. Here in Palm Springs where there are numerous casinos, it doesn't take much to wipe out a fortune.

With drugs there are two types of addiction. One is psychological and the other is physiological. Psychological addictions are always much harder to break because people want to repeat that behavior.

Is there a way to preven addiction? Is there a way to stop addiction? Prevention is easy. Educate the general public at a young age, teaching them how to engage in a behavior the right way and the failure rate will be so insignificant. Most of the reasons why addictions are so bad is because no one receives training. There are complex methodologies for using a slot machine. I have read many books on the subject, and I have yet to find a book that explains it correctly.

In 2007, I was trying to mathematically define the concepts of drug administration because our government has done everyone a great disservice by lumping them all together. I discovered, by accident, that one can graph these forms of drug administration in the first quadrant of an x-y graph. Where x = Dose and y = time, normal drug use is defined as taking 1 of the Maximum Standard Dose (MSD) within the interval of time allowed. For example, 2 aspirin tablets during a 4 hour period is the MSD for aspirin. When we exceed this dose, we abuse the drug. Repeated abuse of a drug over time leads to chemical depsendency which is addiction. Anti-drug disorder (ADD2) starts at the uppermost point on the y axis. When I discovered this, it was like finding the missing link because now it can be explained that the war on drugs (WOD)can never stop drug administration and it can never fix the problem. The most effective the WOD can be is to DELAY the period of time when a person starts using drugs. The government hopes for this generation that the delay will never end.

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The most addictive drug to get off of would have to be in this order from hardest to easiest and that would start out with videos coffee, becase there is really not drug that is not harmfull to people in general, tea, sugared juice, food can be very addictive, and cigarettes, for they are available every where and it was socially acceptable, but now that is not true, and Pot that is psycologically addictve and now pot is now illegal to smoke whil behind the wheel, and then perscritive pills valium, ativan pain pills of opiate based pain killers,booze is up there with the other hard addictions and with the other pills morphine oxy contin, Cocain is the most destructive and a person looses every thing so fast, and there is the old fashioned heroin and the fastest growing crystal meth, and the most difficult to get off of would be cigarettes and booze, because they are the most ready available and smoking is the number one most preventable disease known and thousands die every year from comlications to do with smoking tobaco. as for booze it is socially acceptable to drink in our society and that being said alcoholism is every where

Oxy or vicodin...

I did oxy to get through physiotherapy, then after that, went on to vicodin. I’m detoxing to win a bet with my bet friend and it is evil… not only do you have to deal with the normal withdrawal symptoms, but the pain I’m taking it for increases 10 fold… it’s truly horrid

Most people in the know usually report: cigarettes & heroin, so different, but tied for #1. Then alcohol, meth, PCP, benzodiazepines, smoked cocaine a tossup.

Fear.

heroin, crack, and meth.

then cigarettes.

As a social worker working with teenagers, I found that females are addicted to food and illicit drugs greater than males.

The last one. By that I mean I gave up drugs then alcohol then cigarettes. When I gave the dope up, I drank a lot more and vice versa. The less I have to fall back on the harder it is to give up the next one. Now I eat too much. If I still smoked, I could smoke when I feel like eating...

Plus food is hard for me because I can totally abstain from all the others but I have to eat.

But without help, I couldnt have gotten off the first 2 anyways

The only addiction I think is hard to get over is the one I suffered from, meth and cocaine. But then I believe every addiction is hard to get over.

Methadone is what can begiven to someone with a narcotic addiction. your dependence on methadone is greater then on the narcotic drug they where using.