Does drug addiction actually exist? Obviously there are a lot of people who enjoy taking drugs, but we know from the teaching of Epictetus that 'feelings' are ultimately created in the mind, and that the mind has ultimate control over our sensations, and how we respond to them. Drug "addicts," therefore, are choosing to be that way. "Withdrawal" is a psychosomatic condition, similar to "chronic fatigue syndrome" in mentally-ill women. It's something that the user ultimately chooses to experience.

Given that fact, isn't the solution to drug addiction just to tell the "addicts" to knock it off, and to quit pretending? To jolt them out of their fantasy-world and back into reality, by demanding that they use their own minds to kill off the fake "addiction"?

Am I wrong here? I will clarify a bit - I accept that it's possible to die from a lot of psychosomatic ailments. Psychosomatic doesn't mean "fake" - it means that the source of the illness is in the mind of the sufferer. Change your thinking, change your condition. Non-psychosomatic illnesses are things like broken bones, or metastatic cancers, where outside forces determine the nature of your condition. Drug 'addiction' inheres in the mind, and is thus subject to resolution through purely intrinsic processes.