Using it every day is habit forming for a lot of people, although personally I don't find that to be the case for myself. But for occasional pain it's great. I've helped a lot of veterans get off of the pain killers that the VA had them strung out on with it.
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It's still less bad than the crazy opiods being prescribed.
Personally I don't find it addictive. I take a lot sometimes because I enjoy the buzz but I've never experienced any withdrawal symptoms from it. I do know that it can be addictive for some people because I have people come in to buy it who are clearly experiencing withdrawals. The thing I've noticed about them is that they go through a lot of it. So I warn my customers who are trying it for the first time that they shouldn't take more than 8 capsules of the raw leaf powder, and recommend not taking it daily but rather for breakthrough pain.