@catartist I think the addiction you are talking about is actually adrenal insufficiency. The way my rhumatologist talked about it was that the prednisone you take makes the adrenal glad quit secreting cortisol. He said the adrenal gland “goes to sleep” or “shuts down” and when you wean off prednisone it comes awake and starts secreting the amount your body needs again. But if this goes on too long, the adrenal gland won’t be able to wake up again. I wish someone had educated me to that fact when I first started taking it years ago.