Is it rue that, for a drug to be addictive, it must be either injected or sniffed, because other than that?

It doesn't enter the bloodstream fast enough?
Answer:
Besides smoking (marijuana, crack, cigarettes), addictive drugs can also be drunk (alcohol for example) or absorbed (nicotene patches for example) or just held in the mouth (chewing tobacco, snuff). Actually, substances can be absorbed into the bloodstream quite quickly beneath the tongue.

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or smoked? and no it isnt true

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This is false.These days heroin can be made pure enough to smoke, cocaine can be smoked, and crystal meth can be smoked, all of which are highly addictive.

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Stuff gets into your bloodstream very quickly through your lungs. I've taken a hit of Salvia before and been high before I even pulled the bong from my lips. Also, crack is addictive and it's usually smoked. If a drug is known to be addictive, then changing how you use it isn't going to effect that.

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No. Some drugs are addictive in pill form, such as oxycontin.

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Absolutely not true.
Take for example tranquillisers, like sleeping tablets. You swallow them and they are addictive like hell.

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There are also plenty of drugs in pill form that are addictive. Sleepy times, pain killers, and don't worries, are a few that fall into that class.

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No. Many drugs in pill form are addictive, which is why you cant just walk into a drugstore and buy them. Also tobacco, which is usually smoked but can be addictive in it's "smokeless" forms.

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All it takes for any 'drug' to be 'addictive' is the 'chance' that a person will need to take 'more and more' of that drug to get the same effect as the 'original dosage' gave. I am on prescription Vicodin for 'pain' ... and if I was 'addicted to it' I would be taking 'forty or fifty' pills a day, to 'completely relieve' the pain in my back and hips. I've had the same 'scrip' for almost three years now, and still take 'less than three pills a day' ... so I am 'not addicted' but the drug I take is still 'addicting' ... and I 'swallow it' ... so 'injection and sniffing' are 'contributors to' addiction happening, but the 'drug' does not 'have to be' injected or sniffed to become an 'addiction.'

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Consider the nicotine patch--this is neither inhaled or injected--it is absorbed through the skin. And nicotine is considered to be more addictive than cocaine.

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Some addicts like the rush, but no. The large majority of addicts prefer their drugs by mouth.

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Of course not. The best examples are:
marijuana - smoked, eaten
tobacco - smoked, chewed
alcohol - drunk
caffeine - drunk

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