LSD addiction?

[Psychonautica]

Swim thinks that the addictive properties of lsd should be reconsidered as she believes she went through lsd addiction for several years in high school and is currently witnessing several friends spiral down into the same binge spiral that she did. Swim doesn't think that there is anything in particular contained in lsd that makes it physically addictive, but believes that many users can easily become psychologically dependent on it.
At first swim said that she'd drop maybe once or twice. Of course, acid was more fun than she had anticipated and at xxxx bucks a tab, no way she'd pass them up. Swim loved everything about lsd. It was easy, just eat a tiny little square of paper and she was good for 18 hours. The drug was especially appealing as an alternative to mushrooms, which are very very hard to stomach for swim. Also swim loved that she could have a good time in public and social situations while frying, something which was much too awkward and scary for swim on mushrooms. She quickly went from buying 1 or 2 tabs at a time to buying 10, then 20. She went from dropping every frew weeks to every weekend to multiple times during the week. She would even drop acid during school and calculate how long it would take to get to wherever she was going after school so that she would be able to drive before peaking, but optimally be peaking when she got there. One time she tripped for 4 days in a row, taking 3 tabs on the first day, 3 on the second, 2 on the third and exhausted, having not slept at all, and totally fried still managed 2 more tabs on the fourth day. In short swim's lsd use very rapidly escalated, she was always thinking about tripping. Any time sober was spent bitterly thinking about how much sobriety sucks and all of swim's energy was put into planning the next trip. She became delusional and believed that living in the lsd world was the only possible way she could happily exist and was determined to permanently destroy reality and achieve "perma-trip".
She was coming down from meth and lsd when she moved to Canada for college and decided to quit using both for good and start a new life (she has since stopped using neither).

Swim is honestly very sick and tired of lsd. She's been there and back and there and back again, and is still a little bit out there. She suffers from constant persisting hallucination, is constantly tripped out and seeing and hearing things. Swim has "flashbacks" every single day, but experiences some level of hallucination all the time so only considers the emotional and mental disturbances triggered by certain hallucinations to be a "flashback". Though swim is ridden with anxiety and paranoia, to her horribly dismay, she still finds herself wanting to drop acid if for no other reason than habitual.

Two months ago swim was at a party where there was acid, and just being around it for the first time in a long time was too much and after 4 months clean of lsd, swim dropped again. It was a pretty dramatic experience, she didn't come down for nearly 3 days and believes that one more tab and it will certainly be the permanent deterioration of her sanity. The thing is, swim STILL wants to drop acid. The only reason she hasn't is because she has kept herself away from it for the last 2 months, which has meant not associating with many of her friends. Friends who are currently binging on lsd, bitterly hating reality and yearning for the several days a week when they can fry, just like swim did in high school.

Lsd has made it's permanent rainbow brand on swim's life. Swim feels ready to quit taking it, but there hasn't been one time when she was around it and didn't use it. What can this be called other than addiction, strong psychological dependence? And people told swim that lsd wasn't addictive...

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Almost anything,not even just chemicals can be mentally addictive.Swim doesn't think lsd is addictive in the truest sense that ones body and mind will be dependent on it and have withdrawals.Infact swim knows this won't happen.If swiy wants to stop taking too much acid they merely have to stop.

Rather funny swim can remember his idiot,drunk of a father telling him"Acid is addictive."many years ago.Acid is only addictive to the dea and other fools that believe their propaganda and lies.As far as mental addictions go these are not that difficult.

Swim was using ritalin(methylphenidate)for awhile.More addictive than lsd ofcourse but just a stimulant and not that physically addictive.All swim had to do was decide not to take it anymore to get rid of that addiction.

[INSANEPOOKIE]

What is missing in SWIYs life that LSD replaces or fills in? Perhaps it is that which is addicting and not the drug. Is there a chance thay any drug that would have removed SWIY from normal reality could have done the exact same thing for SWIY and thus become addictive?

From the description it does sound as if one could label that as an addiction.

As Orchid typed, anything can be addictive. That is, even if the average human does not become so enraptured by the item or action. Take World of Warcraft. I personally think WOW is beyond boring and without any fun content to hold ones interest. My bossperson and coworkers play that shiet for hours and hours and then talk about it for hours...

[Psychonautica]

Swim realizes that she has an immense dissatasfaction with reality. She's naturally disassociative and bitter about society, the government, globalization, and the way the world works. From the very biginning lsd made swim feel better and gave her explanations for her questions about why everything is the way it is. The problem is that after the first four or five trips, swim ended up back where she started and the lsd magic had worn off. It only worked to quiet her dislike of sobriety and reality for so long. She just wants to try to stop using it to fill the gaps, because it's no longer filling those gaps so successfully. If anything, now lsd just makes swim more depressed about reality.
Thank swiyou guys for your input.

[Rio Fantastic]

Although LSD is not physically addictive in any way, I think that several people use it as a way of escape, and with the tolerance that can develop, I believe "addict" behaviour can develop. I think addiction to Psychadelics is a disorder though.