Crack actually isnt considered to be physically addictive regardless of the frequency of use. This is one drug that there is no physical withdraw..........well when they are coming down from the drug theres the need and want for more more more and theres the "crash" effects but detox is not necessary for cocaine in any form. The addictive hold is considered to be mental unlike alcohol and the opiates which have severe and DEADLY physical dependency and withdraws.
( crack is also deadly but people die from USING crack either by the drug or the lifestyle like Winnie mentioned.....but with alcohol and opiates people can and do die trying to get off the drug if not done safely under a doctors care)
MANY crack or cocaine users~~ use sporatically, its the amounts and lengths they go to each binge that progresses. Regardless of the frequency of use an addict is an addict and without a program of recovery life is unmanagable and chaos
My husband went out on his binge TWICE in the last year, not everyday and not every week but twice. Just as devastating to him and to our family as it is for the ones who use daily.
He's been addicted to cocaine for the last 18 to 20 years. Hes been thru times where he was using daily in his lifetime (not ours together) and hes also had 10 years clean but he is just as much an addict as the homeless guy who lives on the street and his day to day goals are to get and use drugs. Maybe even worse, because he knows logically that it is never worth the loss and the pain that follows each binge. And with each binge he loses his ability to believe that he can ever get and stay clean............
Hes no less addicted because he used only twice, and his disease has progresses regardless of the fact that the time between binges has lengthened