Yeah no, there is a massive difference between being dependant on a medication that you need medically in order to function (when your baseline without your meds is non-functional) and being addicted to a substance (that you can function without once you've detoxed and gotten sober). The former is "you already have an illness/disorder, so you take this medication to manage/treat it," and the latter is "you've developed a disorder from the substances you're abusing, and you need to stop taking these substances in order to treat/manage it".
There's also a massive difference between having an addiction and suffering from compulsive eating disorders like pica where you're compelled to eat non-food items like laundry soap or modeling clay. We have some majorly disordered ideas about medication due to the opioid epidemic and "the war on drugs" propaganda, and from tv shows that profit off of suffering people like 'My Strange Addiction' and 'Intervention'.
To be fair and give credit where credit is due, these shows have done a lot to destigmatize the issues and put people in touch with programs and resources that they wouldn't otherwise have known existed, but it still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
