>>13569144Tbh I think all medications are addictive, even if doctors claim otherwise. I've never had an asthma inhaler, but I've gotten physically addicted to OTC allergy medication and nasal spray, and had to ween myself off.
I've also gotten addicted to hand lotion and my skin would get extremely dry without it, to the point that I would develop like white flakes of skin within a few hours if I stopped using it. Everything you look at on line says that this is impossible, and that it really mean that you're just allergic to additive in the lotion, but that sounds like bullshit. I almost always used hypoallergenic products, and the problem would persist, regardless of the brand of lotion I used. Even plain olive oil or coconut oil seems to be addictive. I had to ween myself off of lotion over the course of a few weeks, and that was the only thing that stopped my hands from constantly needing more lotion.
Health professionals will say that you can't get addicted to this or that, but almost all of them are quite literally scientifically illiterate, so their opinion is sadly worthless. The sad reality is that a lot of medicine isn't treated as a science today. I'm not a biologist, but I do have a good bit of domain knowledge when it comes to neuroscience, genetics, and evolution, and my intuition just from my basic understanding of neuroplasticity and epigenetics is that pretty much any substance that you put into you put into you body is going to produce physiological feedback effects that lead to things like receptor down- or up-regulation as well as gene activation and deactivation. I don't think that would lead to full blown addiction in most cases, but I feel like pretty much a substance that is regularly consumed will result physiological changes that basically amount to your body becoming physiologically acclimated. Tl;dr your body is always trying to maintain homeostasis.
