The following are common symptoms of addiction:
- The need to continue or increase use of the substance in order to achieve the desired effect.
- Experiencing withdrawal when you don’t get the substance often enough.
- Focusing your social life or work life around using the substance.
- Extreme mood changes: finding yourself experiencing extreme happiness, sadness or anxiety.
- Sleeping noticeably more or less than usual – usually at abnormal times of the day or night.
- Experiencing changes in your energy level.
- Extreme weight loss or gain.
- You find yourself lying to cover up your substance use.
- You find yourself stealing the substance to use, or money to buy the substance.
- General demeanor of secretiveness, being careful about what you say to friends or family.