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Addict in sentence

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And when your parent is a drug addict, it's kind of like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, because as much as you want to love on that person, as much as you want to receive love from that person, every time you open your heart, you end up on your back.
We passed this information to the police, and they found out that, actually, Thomson is a drug addict, and he also has a medical record for psychotic episodes, for which presumably the antidepressant was prescribed.
Even more amazingly, after the execution, Raisuddin reached out to Stroman's eldest daughter, Amber, an ex-convinct and an addict.
Now, there's another way to do it, and that's by increasing justness in corporate behavior, but the way that we're operating right now, that would require a tremendous change in behavior, and like an addict trying to kick a habit, the first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem.
In Arizona, I went out with a group of women who were made to wear t-shirts saying, "I was a drug addict," and go out on chain gangs and dig graves while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again.
The goal was to make sure that every addict in Portugal had something to get out of bed for in the morning.
And when I came back from this long journey and I'd learned all this, I looked at the addicts in my life, and if you're really candid, it's hard loving an addict, and there's going to be lots of people who know in this room.
Everyone has a bit of them that looks at an addict and thinks, I wish someone would just stop you.
Get an addict, all the people in their life, gather them together, confront them with what they're doing, and they say, if you don't shape up, we're going to cut you off.
So what they do is they take the connection to the addict, and they threaten it, they make it contingent on the addict behaving the way they want.
It's like a drug addict.
"I feel skinny, but I'm not." "I'm 23, and a recovering meth and heroin addict, and feel absolutely blessed to still be alive."
I'm a video game addict and this is my story.
I'm a video game addict, and it's not because of a certain number of hours I have spent playing, or nights I have gone without sleep to finish the next level.
Every addict in the courtroom lowered their head.
And it's not helpful to look at those born under those circumstances, or a parent that makes their child a drug addict at age seven, or a generation of babies born through drug addiction, and not feel some despair.
Very soon, and rather unknowingly, I became an addict of this newfound drug.
He was a drug addict.
But if I had to choose one building in the world to be cast out on a desert island, to live the rest of my life, being an addict of symmetry, I would probably choose the Alhambra in Granada.
So, let's start with what's rational for an addict.
But, actually, Frankie, at that time, was a heroin addict and he was in jail.
This is one of my sons, Rayan, who's a Scooby Doo addict.
I am a total addict of reality TV and there is nothing real about this.
Trying to investigate the double murders of a friend and a drug addict found near the Thames.
My throat hurt, my wallet was empty and I ended up chatting to a drug addict at a bus-stop trying to sell me some petrol.
Tim Taylor is an abusive acholoic drug addict.
Irene grows close to another recovering addict, a male nurse from her rehab center.
You can say it's a stark, realistic look at the day-to-day struggles of an addict.
I spotted the DVD on a store near my home, and since I'm a "cheesy horror movie/alien flicks" addict, I wondered how good it was.
Being an admitted chess addict, I was excited to see a documentary about the 1997 rematch between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer.
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