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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by benj111 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:09AM (#34653279)
Conversely I'm on long term anti depressants and I get withdrawal symptoms if I forget to take them, but no one is ever referred to as being addicted to anti depressants.

I suspect there are different (social) mechanisms at work here, but addiction is generally applied to one specific form of drug reliance.

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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by skissane on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:59AM (#34654527)
> but no one is ever referred to as being addicted to anti depressants

People who are sceptical of antidepressants, such as Professor Joanna Moncrieff (University of College London), do speak of them as “addictive”, and consider their use to (at least sometimes) be a case of “prescribed drug dependency”, and also speak of “withdrawal” from them

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