YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Hello all. I'm a 4th year pharmacy student with way too much experience with depression and pain medication, and not from school. I like the subjects this podcast is exploring but I hope there is more discussion eventually about the success/failure and side effects of the many drugs used in mental h...

I think it would be helpful here to define what addiction is is see if it applies. Addiction is a psychological dependence, with compulsive drug seeking, loss of control, not using drugs for pain, and continued drug use despite known harm. I'm not sure you really qualify as an addict except that the...