Common signs and symptoms of drug addiction

You can find out whether someone is addicted or not by these common sign and symptoms of drug addiction:
1. When you feel that you have built up a drug tolerance. You need to use more of the drug to experience the same effects you used to with smaller amounts.
2. When you start taking drugs to avoid or relieve withdrawal symptoms. If you go too long without drugs, you experience symptoms such as nausea, restlessness, insomnia, depression, sweating, shaking, and anxiety.
3. When you feel that you have lost control over your drug use. You often do drugs or use more than you planned, even though you told yourself you wouldn’t. You may want to stop using, but you feel powerless.
4. When you start feeling that your life revolves around drug use. You spend a lot of time using and thinking about drugs, figuring out how to get them, and recovering from the drug’s effects.
5. When you have abandoned activities you used to enjoy, such as hobbies, sports, and socializing, because of your drug use.
6. When you continue to use drugs, despite knowing it’s hurting you. It’s causing major problems in your life—blackouts, infections, mood swings, depression, paranoia—but you use anyway.