Also, if someone is addicted to alcohol or a drug they should seek help from an addiction treatment center.

The best way to tell what is going on with your Vitamin C levels is to raise the amount you take each day and see if that decreases your cravings over time. One method to find out if you are taking more Vitamin C than your body needs is to keep raising the daily amount until your bowels become noticeably too loose. Then stop taking Vitamin C for a day. After that, start taking it again, but at a lower amount. The loose bowels show the body is getting rid of the extra. No harm done. If you have sources of natural Vitamin C that you can eat, great! For example, if you have unsprayed roses, you can gather the fruits (the rose hips at the base of the petals). There are many foods high in Vitamin C, and if you get them from a local farmer or organic source, the vitamin C content is likely to be higher.