If meds are taken to manage a medical condition - and done so under the regular supervision of a doctor, then I don't think it is an addiction. Most decent doctors that are involved in managing a condition won't let you become "addicted" to something. That's why they wait so long in pain management situations. You won't get the morphine or other opiates until you are so far gone addiction is the least of your worries - and your pain is probablky being managed to give you a better quality of life while you wait to die.
Most addicts become so because they "self-medicate."
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