I am glad you two ironed this out. We try very hard here at NT to not be judgemental. These forums are for support and for learning new information.

I'd like to clarify the words being used here a little bit.

Addiction is a far cry from dependency.

Addiction is when you crave more and more of the desired substance, excluding food, relationships and work. It is driven by dopamine reinforcement and very difficult to treat. It is thought for example, that addiction may be inherited as a genetic flaw in the dopamine reward system in the brain. Food can be addicting, and so can video games, and even sex. People will do desperate things to get their cravings eased. They will literally destroy their lives to get their substance in some cases!

A dependency can be different. That means you are dependent on the substance, and suffer some sort of psychological or physical symptoms when it is withdrawn. Within the last decade dependency has taken on new meanings. SSRIs cause a withdrawal, and many other drugs, as well, need to be tapered off. Gabapentin, is one. There was a time that drugs like this did not exist...and so their dependency aspects were a surprise to most doctors. People with a dependency do not generally crave the substance dramatically, but just need it to continue daily.
Usually there is no loss of work, relationships, but that varies with people depending on the degree of dependency.

Dependency today is very very common. Addiction is far more dramatic and disabling, and we don't see many addicted people here on our PN forum.