Many contend that it is too difficult to delineate abuse from addiction to even try to discern the point at which it occurs. But, each person deserves to know if he/she has transitioned from abuse to the chronic, progressive, and fatal process of addiction. Little known, and almost entirely forgotten critical research guides how to make the delineation between abuse to addiction. When used by professionals, and clearly shared with families and drug users, this criteria saves lives by liberating all from the confusion of uncertainty in knowing who has an addiction, and therefore must be ab
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