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Caffeine addiction is definitely a real thing and there are real physical withdrawal symptoms associated with it. It's a psychoactive stimulant, why would addiction not be possible? Addiction is just your body adjusting to the constant stimulation, then once that's stopped there's an adjustment period where it needs to regulate your neurotransmitters back up to a normal level.
Medical/clinical addiction normally revolves around hard-to-control cravings (can't stop thinking about it, might get aggressive if prevented from getting it), loss of control, etc. Dependence is essentially making your body used to something, and then having to consume it to feel normal, or feel like shit when you stop consuming it. While addiction and dependence are similar, addiction is far more brutal and hard to quit. By no means coffee is as hard to skip as cigarette, to anyone. If your reaction is "wow, coffee makes my head hurt, I don't want it", that's pretty opposite of addictive substance.
https://www.science.org/content/article/coffee-cravers-are-not-addicts
That's weird, that's the opposite of what I was taught, which was that dependence was a psychological reliance on a drug and addiction was the body's physical response and adjustment to the drug. Doing a quick google it seems like those terms have been switched, likely to take away some of the stigma due to the whole addiction is a disease thing.