Has anyone here ever had an addiction?

As the title says really, just curious if any of the good users of TSR have ever suffered from any addiction be it from something like heroin to pain killers to cigarettes or maybe even something more fun like sex
Personally i've had some issues with Diazepam, Codeine and cigarettes and with hindsight would never have touched them with a bargepole ...
feel free to share your stories
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I had a problem with codeine too. I still use it but I have seriously cut down the amount I take. I never want to take as much as I did ever again because the withdrawals were horrible. I have been offered oxycodeine lots of times before and I'm so glad I never touched it as I could have been a bigger wreck than I am now.

On a lighter note, I'm addicted to Spyro 2

Oh haven't we all...

Damn, you got there before me. That game took up a significant portion of my life.

I remember when I actually used to believe in a god, I used to worry about whether or not heaven had Runescape; that's how addicted I was to the game, true story haha

yar the come down from it is horric plus some of the side effects i got from it werent especially pleasant, didnt like the nausea it gave me in the slightest -_- how on earth did you managed to get offered that?! i only came across that once and said individual was trying to charge £30 a pop -_- bloody hard to get over here but as you said probably for the best we stayed away from it

Same with me, i did it for 7 years, and i havnt since about october time. Do you ever find when you start again theyre a lot worse (deeper, more scaring etc...)?

Congrats on the improvement It is indeed a long struggle, but totally worth it.
I was in a very similar boat. Started when I was about 11/12 and decided it wasn't solving my problems, but still found it hard to quit. I'd quit for about a week or two, and then return to it when I felt depressed. It was towards the beginning of this year that a friend slapped some sense into me and made me realise that self harming wasn't doing me any favours.
Haven't cut myself more than once/twice since February

The moment I saw the title of the thread the first thought to come to my mind was RUNESCAPE I think we've all played a fair bit of it in our time. Still a great game but can't be played during GCSE's (He says whilst he is botting at the Range Guild and revising Biology)