How To Use Addict In A Sentence
-
Genetic factors, scientists believe, account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
-
Although alcoholism remains the number one dependency problem among judges and lawyers, the face of addiction continues to change.
-
This is exactly the kind of nitwittery that mikey is addicted to.
BuzzFlash.net: published
-
The wandering wraiths, addicts and drunks that you see around town didn't just come about out of the blue - they were produced by the education system.
-
Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape.
The Decameron
-
It's amazing how many reluctant spouses become addicted after this gentle introduction.
-
Moreover, he believed very firmly in Christianity as the way of saving human beings, and he addicted to a monkish life.
-
I have also struggled, fought and cried because of my addiction to drugs.
-
Add in endless plugs in magazines and news bulletins and the less addicted may want to flee the country.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness.
News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
-
There is no known cure for hebephilia and no effective initial screening mechanism, says psychologist James Cantor, who leads a team of researchers from Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and other hospitals in studying the role of the brain in causing pedophilia and hebephilia.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
-
Raving, starving herself, addicted to Seconal and Dexedrine, Tippy makes a dramatic transformation from beautiful to mean.
-
The rush is pure, powerful and addictive.
The Sun
-
Cocaine is one of the main addiction drugs in the world. Scientists are always trying to discover why the addiction happens and find the methods to cure the cocaine addiction.
-
The New Zealander-Australian country music star battled an addiction to cocaine in the late '90s, but cleaned up before releasing his self-titled American debut in 2000.
-
If the real victims of drugs are the people who get their houses burgled by addicts desperate for the money for a fix, maybe we should legalise drugs, she suggests.
-
She was on a cocktail of drink and drugs when she burgled a total of four houses to fund her drug addiction.
-
He admitted in a nationwide radio broadcast on Friday that he is addicted to prescription pain medication.
-
He was addicted to a stronger strain of skunk cannabis but demand for it won't disappear if marijuana is legalised.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Drug addicts, alcoholics, bulimics, anorexics, and sex addicts line up to claim social causes of their problems.
-
Pleasure seeking often enslaves people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
-
To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
-
It was she who sent him to rehab when his alcohol addiction got out of control.
Times, Sunday Times
-
She is as rabidly anti-smoking as only a recently cured addict can be.
-
Love is foolish and self- destructive when people get addicted to gambling, alcohol, drugs, and sensual indulgence. Many people suffer from this kind of negative love. Dr T.P.Chia
-
Few in this generation are heroin addicts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
When I use the term addiction, I mean it as a wake-up call.
Your Moral Leader
-
The four persons who were beaten and burned not only were homeless, but were reported by police to be drug addicts.
-
The treatment for people addicted to tranquillizers includes training in stress management and relaxation techniques.
-
MySpace sarah omg nina dobrev i love your charector every since the day you were on degrassi have loved you please email me sometime thanks oh and hers my email adress [email protected] thanks emily the guy on photo is her brother?? nina's ok girl; p lol xxx theTVaddict
10 Questions with DEGRASSI Actress Nina Dobrev | the TV addict
-
It aims to give smokers a proper understanding of nicotine addiction and withdrawal symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The notion of addicts as passive victims of their addiction is a gross simplification.
Times, Sunday Times
-
While still suffering, the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour.
-
This weekend Costco was selling flats of perfectly ripe figs. Yesterday I quartered and wrapped them in prosciutto for a quick, easy, and addictively good appetizer.
Archive 2008-07-01
-
She has called for more support to be made available for former drug addicts coming out of prison.
-
To put it simply, this bike climbs like a squirrel, descends like a greased squirrel on a luge, corners like a decagon, and accelerates like a methamphetamine-addicted rabbit.
Happy Birthday To Me: BSNYC Turns 1
-
The man claimed he stole money to pay for his addiction to cocaine.
Christianity Today
-
I don't consider myself a caffeine addict, but I do drink diet Coke every evening and probably a weak coffee every day or two on average.
-
The belief that smoking is a physical addiction is what the popular nicotine " patches " trade on.
Self-Hypnosis
-
The program is based on the premise that drug addiction can be cured.
-
I know absolutely no heroin addicts and I know plenty of people who smoke weed.
-
He used cocaine to treat depression, asthma, cachexia, and for overcoming morphine addiction.
-
Online gambling and spread-betting are now the highest risk areas of addiction for problem gamblers, according to a survey published yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
-
You think politics are about being a diptera, buzzing around bothering people by regurgitating what some country club republican addict has people write for him?
Think Progress » Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?
-
A former drug addict and reformed hellraiser, he's on the comeback trail with a sickly song that gradually starts to work its way up the charts.
-
There are many reasons for this including problems with tolerance, addiction and a newer discovery known as opioid-induced hyperalgesia OIH -- where opioid medications eventually cause some to get even more sensitive to pain.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
-
Her mother is a drug addict and has been in and out of jail for over a decade, and Megan's insatiable craving for affection is both tragic and repellent.
-
The skills jockeys employ to get horses to win races are largely visible and obvious - despite many attempts at mystification by a racing culture addicted to magic and superstition.
-
The police decided to crack down on drug addicts.
-
For purposes of philosophical self-understanding, however, it is important to be clear that a phenomenon such as addiction can present different kinds of obstacles in the way of our acting well.
-
The doctor was concerned about this, because the friend was also a heroin addict and was using methadone for his own treatment.
-
Golf addicts: Consider yourselves disqualified from the cabinet.
Blogtalk: Rendell on Napolitano’s ‘No Life’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
-
It has been a 200-year diversion from solar, wind, hydro- and bio-power, beneficial in its time, but now a dead-end addiction.
William S. Becker: The Solar Soldier Is No Fad
-
But the attitude some people show to addiction is what we need to change.
The Sun
-
The clinic detoxicates addicts.
-
Made from thermoset acrylic acid resin and high - grade melamine resinwith weather resistant color, organic solvents and addictives.
-
Whenever a young footballer goes off the rails, these ‘survivors’ are always wheeled out to sermonise about the dangers of addiction.
-
Although most social smokers would claim they are not chemically addicted to nicotine, the experts are not so sure.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Cummings called the Interior Department "schizophrenic" - on the one hand declaring its intent to protect polar bear habitat in the Arctic, yet at the same time "sacrificing that habitat to feed our unsustainable addiction to oil.
Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
-
Rather, they seem to make smokers more likely to become addicted and to smoke more heavily.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Families and communities disintegrate under the crushing burden of drug addiction.
-
Afternoon groups relate to the specific addictions and problems therein.
-
Transfixing and intense, their dark, wine-soaked ballads and lock-tite harmonies are addictive.
-
The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history †“Xanadu.†People are calling a hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980’s Olivia Newton-John film, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldn’t, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar.
Whoopi Roller Skates ‘Xanadu’
-
My analogy regarding giving more tax dollars to Congress, likening it to heroin addiction, is quite apt.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit
-
Our attitude to the use of such ‘soft’, non-addictive drugs is changing.
-
This Pavlovian addiction gets magnified when the merchandising of the cartoon characters starts entering into every nook and corner of the house, be it the lunch box, the school note book or the bathroom towel.
-
A lifelong yoga addict and juice faster, she was always underweight, a non-smoker and a healthy eater.
MeiMei Fox: Barbra Streisand Takes the Stage for Women and Heart Disease
-
His addiction to drugs caused his family much grief.
-
What is the first step to recovery in other addictions?
-
For months she struggled with computers and photography - ‘technological addictions’ she calls them - physical demons and creative roadblocks in order to find her film's voice.
-
The fact that the dim-witted and near-sighted MPAA has slapped an NC-17 rating on Steve McQueen's Shame implies that there is something prurient about this film, whose central figure is a sex addict, struggling with his demons.
Marshall Fine: Movie review: Shame
-
Fortunately, she elected to remain in hospital as she and her unborn baby were both suffering seizures from addiction withdrawal.
-
Drug addicts shoot up in the back alleys.
-
Some people try hypnotism to cure themselves of addictions.
-
In reality, she was a former drug addict who spent three years behind bars for smuggling drugs into jail.
The Sun
-
The most humane treatment is to expose the addict fully to the personal and family pain he is causing.
Christianity Today
-
Injections are also being developed to help tackle other serious addictions, including drugs dependence.
-
The self-confessed drug addict admitted possessing heroin with intent, but claimed that he was only looking after it for another person.
-
It was that addictive "one more level" Diablo game play and technology tree combined with the dialogue options in Baldur's Gate II.
The Horror... The Horror....
-
She has resisted all temptations to overdo and overplay, despite the openings that Jackie's addictions and infidelities have offered.
'Nurse Jackie': A dose of excellence from Edie Falco
-
His emphasis on material austerity directly challenges our modern addiction to comfort, one of the Celtic tradition's most important correctives to our present mindset.
-
The drug addict is his own enemy - slowly killing himself using drugs as a weapon. Dr T.P.Chia
-
It's more like crystal meth addiction.
Christianity Today
-
Whether they were taken as a result of his inability to sleep or because of an ongoing addiction to certain drugs is up for debate, but the fact remains — this actor was cut off too early in life and had a lot more to offer.
Eric’s Top 10 Untimely Actor Deaths » Scene-Stealers
-
A painful bout with heroin addiction eventually led him to a spiritual rebirth.
-
Issues such as drug addiction require sensitive handling when featured in TV dramas.
-
There are tens of thousands of people in this province addicted to the machines, which are to be found in almost every seedy bar in Montreal and elsewhere.
-
The dad of three had battled booze and drug addiction for many years.
The Sun
-
It's so cool and new, in fact, that it opened yesterday, and at the tables around us, we see nose jobs and breast implants and toupees, and what happens if you get addicted to Botox.
-
Yes | No | Report from bugg255 wrote 1 year 1 week ago woe unto thee that becomes addicted to piscatorial pursuits ... and i ain't kiddin 'niether great story and good pics
Stripers on the Edge of Insanity
-
Gadget addicts can finally throw away their ever-growing collection of chargers.
-
Few in this generation are heroin addicts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Not mention, I was horribly addicted to iced mochas and hot chocolates.
-
But those mots are just the icing on what is essentially a very rich, very filling, very addictive, gooey chocolate cake of a thriller.
-
They are generally so refractory, self-conceited, obstinate, so firmly addicted to that religion in which they have been bred and brought up, that no persuasion, no terror, no persecution, can divert them.
Anatomy of Melancholy
-
In contrast, a region deep in the brain associated with reward processing, attention and motor movements - the chordate nucleus - was enlarged in subjects who were addicted to the drug.
Cocaine addiction linked to brain abnormalities
-
She was a heroin addict and used amphetamines, but had started a methadone programme when she learned she was pregnant.
-
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
-
Any teenager worth his or her salt is addicted to instant messaging.
-
Brain regions known as the nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal/prefrontal cortex were also activated. These regions are known to be associated with intense cocaine addiction and cigarette addiction.
-
This then traps the users into a world of addiction, which is very hard to get out of.
-
I'll tell you what: There are a bunch of people who are just addicted to those things, those audiobooks.
-
It fires its way through first, second and third with a savageness that's terrifyingly addictive.
-
Rooms were hazed with the fumes from the keproot pipes of the addicted and fuggy with the smell of the resins smouldering in the censers.
Rogue Rainlord
-
The idea of nanoloop is to simplify the stepsequencer concept as far as possible while still keeping and hopefully even increasing the gamesome, yet addictive character of loop-based music creation.
-
He committed both crimes to feed his addiction to heroin.
-
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
-
She has become addicted to fried chicken and calorific milkshakes in the last stages of her pregnancy.
-
These may either be addictive themselves or may reinforce the view that there is a pill for every ill.
-
Physiological addiction may occur after repeated use of analgesics for relief from chronic pain.
-
Perry Farrell, best known as the frontman for iconic alt-rock act Jane's Addiction, has spent the past three years putting together ‘Ultra Payloaded,’ the debut album from his new musical project, Satellite Party.
-
He is not a homicidal maniac, but a violent, evil man made even more so by his addiction to unnamed drugs.
-
There was a time when only a section of the women population were addicted to the novelettes churned out by several scintillating weeklies.
-
She is a real maneater - it is as if she is addicted to men and sex and she always had to have a boyfriend.
-
When drunk frequently or in large quantities, alcohol is addictive.
-
For the hard-core gamer, "Tabula Rasa" offers the kind of souped-up eye-candified and, most important, addictive online action that actually gives it a shot at being a "Warcraft"-killer, or at least a "Warcraft"-hurter.
Tabula Rasa
-
An endlessly inventive and incredibly addictive game.
Times, Sunday Times
-
He survived long battles with alcoholism and drug addiction, brawls, accidents and bypass surgery.
Times, Sunday Times
-
We got immediate feedback from the crowd (always positive), and that got pretty addictive!
-
The actress is a self- proclaimed Twitter addict and has posted over 2,000 tweets since joining Twitter just a few months ago.
-
Lead researcher Brad Bushman believes that young people may be "addicted" to self-esteem.
-
Heroin addicts leave a trail of destruction behind them in their ceaseless quest for a fix.
-
She also becomes addicted to painkillers that she claims are for backache and headaches.
-
From a business standpoint would you prefer the £20 a week the average stoner spends on his habit or the £50 a day habit of a heroin addict?
-
Once poker was a game played by chain-smoking, visor-wearing social oddities with rolls of cash and an obsession for cards which bordered on addiction.
-
The program is premised on the idea that drug addiction can be cured.
-
And that was the nature of the term addiction, or addict, well into the 1500s.
NPR Topics: News
-
But Rick realizes that the drug-addicted teenager who committed the ugly crimes has grown into a different person.
-
Some forms of drug addiction, for example, and some liver diseases are contraindicated, meaning that use of Vivitrol by persons having these problems is risky business.
Dr. Rock Positano: Vivitrol: A Cure For Alcoholism?
-
Intake of potentially hepatotoxic drugs, intravenous drug addiction and previous blood transfusions were ruled out in all patients.
-
After refusing to leave the cell, one inmate, a cocaine and heroin addict serving seven years for violent robberies, headbutted the officer.
-
People tend to regard drug addicts as the dregs of society.
-
My main concern is the fact that some of these young ones are forced into illegal drug activity by addictive parents.
-
Many parents are worried about drug addiction among the schoolchild.
-
He believes that needle exchange schemes encourage drug addiction.
-
See, she's a heroin addict here, and tries real hard to look all doped up and dramatic.
-
As I have argued previously, covering transportation fuels in the cap is essential to end our addiction to oil and achieve the long-term emission reductions we need.
Dan Lashof: Can We Get on the Road to the Emission Reductions We Need by Starting with a Cap on Stationary Sources?
-
It is the supporters of the current system who are not serious about fighting drug addiction.
-
What is commonly called carbohydrate addiction should probably be relabeled as calorie addiction,” she added.
Give in to Your Food Cravings in Moderation | Impact Lab
-
In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony.
Christianity Today
-
A diluted apple juice addiction that soothed them as soon as they gripped the handles As they got older, they moved on to the juice box -- six ounces of fruit-flavored heroin housed in a plastic coated box complete with precious straw.
Wendy Sachs: Snack Food Nation: How Kids Are Conditioned to Snack
-
He thought he had became addicted to Propofol, this very powerful sedative, which is really only supposed to be used in a hospital setting, Campbell.
CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2009
-
Crack is a highly potent and addictive derivative of cocaine.
-
The addicting properties of sugar or fast food could easily be tested in humans.
-
I'm convinced she got me addicted to girls with large eyes, hers a sparkling grey/blue nestled amongst long, light tan lashes.
-
It has implications for addiction, attention disorders and stress-related memory loss, said Dr. Don Cooper, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study conducted in mice.
Tew's Day!
-
There was a drug, supplementary to their addictions, which effectively switched them offcast them into a mental void, created within them what amounted to temporary brain-death-which was the absolute negation of thought.
Psychosphere
-
Their minds have never been sufficiently clear of the substance or process of addiction to be in any significant degree of recovery.
-
As a crossword puzzler myself and the daughter of a crossword addict who competed in the national competition filmed for the movie Wordplay, I know both how fun and frustrating they can be.
What's the Connection?: Winning...and Losing
-
Was this a happy addiction, as the old warhorse dragged out the wig and heels?
Times, Sunday Times
-
Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
-
It delivered a crowd of what she called coupon addicts—customers who bought several deals from a variety of sites and would bounce from one practice to the next.
Burned by Daily-Deal Craze, Small Businesses Get Savvy
-
The greatest mistake in life is to get addicted to drugs - becoming a prisoner of ecstasy and hallucination, and less of a man. Dr T.P.Chia
-
Certain non-addictive medications may also be helpful in switching phobic alarms off.
-
The same study finds a genetic component to the susceptibility to nicotine addiction, too.
-
Social work staff say they are overburdened with casework and worried about not being able to give heroin addicts in the drug court enough support.
-
She was addicted to drugs and alcohol and she had been for many years.
-
In other words, this therapist was an alcoholic and a drug addict.
-
Prisoners targeted for 'retox' are inmates who came into jail as addicts.
The Sun
-
The Portuguese imported both tobacco and opium, and supplied a cheap instrument for addicts, the pipe.
-
Students from the early nineties look into his eyes and see a heroin addict.
-
Order the addictively airy gougères, hollow pastry shells scented with cheese, as soon as you sit down.
-
he had sunk to the depths of addiction
-
Locals say many inhabitants are alcoholics and drug addicts who spend the day sleeping indoors.
Times, Sunday Times
-
In this connection I desire to make a statement which may come as a surprise to many, and that is this: I have but lately -- within the past few days, in fact -- been informed that among persons addicted to the vice of slang the term nut is occasionally applied to other persons whom they suspect of being mentally incapable or, in short, deranged.
Fibble, D.D.
-
Adrianna is witty, articulate, pregnant, and addicted to heroin.
Boing Boing: January 14, 2001 - January 20, 2001 Archives
-
Definitions of addiction, on the other hand, dominated by all-or-none categories of the effects of drug usage, often ignore highly differential typologies and reasons for a problem with a specific drug.
-
It's very addictive, a one-key alternative to tabbing your way through a page of results.
-
He takes a protective but also frankly spectatorial interest in the lives of his tenants, following their dramas with the fascination of a soap opera addict.
-
L for Legend@ the liberal name calling and demonization is getting real old and kinda shows that you dope addictted products of the NEA controlled education system are incapable of carrying on a discussion about issues.
Nelson to support motion to proceed
-
Beating addictions needs more expert advice and just brute will-power is very unlikely to work.
-
A borderline alcoholic with a severe addiction to painkillers, he maintains a live-in girlfriend in the city under the guise of ‘working late’ at the office, while sequestering his wife and kid in the suburbs.
-
The progressive decline in the course of addictive disease follows similar patterns in differing individual sufferers.
-
In the course of the 1980s, the recognition of nicotine addiction offered an explanation of the difficulty experienced by some in breaking the smoking habit.
-
Heroin is obtained from morphine and is extremely addictive.
-
When are we going to catch up with other countries and realise that smoking a bit of pot is not going to turn us all into cocaine addicts.
-
The dreadful suffering endured by those addicted to the drugs, the ruin of lives which should be useful, do not constitute the whole of the evil, for the ills spread to their families.
-
An addictive personality, he is now off the drugs, though he still drinks a bit.
-
He gesticulated violently, and delivered himself in short, emphatic sentences, interlarded, I am sorry to say, with rather too many of those objectionable expletives that an ex-slave-overseer may be supposed to be addicted to.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
-
I have hurt so many people on my journey through addiction.
-
Kashmir offers not only a great shooting locations, it is also where he gets addicted to saffron rice cooked on hot coals, and mincemeat with cream and almond sauce.
-
Heroin addicts should be able to register and get supplies on prescription.
-
So, like an addict wanting to reproduce the effect of their first high, you are forced to go higher and steeper.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Taking risks becomes an addiction.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Underneath this image of normalcy, addiction threatened to rip this family apart.
-
Many are afflicted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression.
-
Both cocaine and crack are very addictive - and very, very dangerous.
-
The drug that has shown the biggest jump in contributing to overdose deaths over the last 10 years is methadone, which is used not just for pain relief, but also as treatment for heroin addicts.
Radley Balko: The New Panic Over Prescription Painkillers
-
Less addicted to the study of cartography, the following generations comprehended that this dilated map was useless and, not without impiety, delivered it to the inclemencies of the sun and of the winters.
-
If you are a real caffeine addict, then have the breakfast juice from day two each morning.
-
The majority of drug addicts will commit crimes to feed their habit.
-
Multi-ethnic, multicultural Brazilians, addicted to tolerance but most of the time drenched in complacency, preferred to believe -- and joke about -- the eternal promise of "the country of the future" (as novelist Stefan Zweig coined it over 70 years ago).
Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
-
Has anyone ever done a serious study on the economic impact of drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution, crime, divorce, pollution, economic disparity, and psychological illness caused by a capitalist society in appraising its efficiency?
Letters to the Editor
-
He accepted that legalisation would not necessarily greatly increase addiction to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
-
He told me that alcohol was a worse thing to be addicted to than any drug, even heroin.
-
I had been struggling with crack and heroin addiction through a long period of my life.
-
I have love love loved addictive Lip Venom, and Nordie’s for years and I am bleedin dismayed that they have betrayed me and crossed over to the Crap Side.
'Twilight'-inspired fashion hits Nordstrom | EW.com
-
SOCIAL media addicts may have their genes to blame, a report claims.
The Sun
-
He liked to display a map - reminiscent of a phrenology chart - showing which areas of the brain are involved in drug use and addiction.