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304 examples of Addiction in a sentence

I have a slight office supply addiction, but that's another talk.
And it doesn't just have to be addiction.
And yet, despite everything going really well for John, he was struggling, fighting addiction and a gripping depression.
Drug addiction, you simply want more.
Arousal addiction, you want different.
And as we treat it with our compound, this addiction to sugar, this rapid growth, faded.
And the reason is that they're concerned that if people imagine there's some easy way out, that we won't give up our addiction to fossil fuels.
Let's not forget that some of the worst diseases of humankind are diseases such as depression, Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction.
Recent proposals for supervised injection sites in cities like Seattle, Baltimore and New York have been met with stiff opposition: opposition that goes against everything we know about addiction.
What makes us think that strategy would work for something as complex as addiction?
You'd think you'd be singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" out in the majesty of the ocean, not songs about heroin addiction in New York City.
The world does not need any more pipelines to wed our addiction to fossil fuels.
He spent most of his life battling alcoholism, depression, morphine addiction, and that life ended when he was just 34 years old.
Shame is highly, highly correlated with addiction, depression, violence, aggression, bullying, suicide, eating disorders.
We can eliminate our addiction to oil and coal by 2050 and use one-third less natural gas while switching to efficient use and renewable supply.
These scans, the clinics say, can help prevent Alzheimer's disease, solve weight and addiction issues, overcome marital conflicts, and treat, of course, a variety of mental illnesses ranging from depression to anxiety to ADHD.
To this day, he is a stick of TNT lit from both ends, could describe to you in detail the way the sky bends in the moment before it's about to fall, and despite an army of friends who all call him an inspiration, he remains a conversation piece between people who can't understand sometimes being drug-free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
RH: Yeah, and again, we try not to think about it in addiction terms, we think about it as, you know: What are you going to do with your time and when you want to relax?
Something worthy, by the way, so addiction and infatuation don't count, because we all know that those are not safe places to live.
Addiction is real, the elements are real, freight trains maim and kill, and anyone who has lived on the streets can attest to the exhaustive list of laws that criminalize homeless existence.
As for the other drugs, look at Portugal, where nobody goes to jail for possessing drugs, and the government's made a serious commitment to treating addiction as a health issue.
He saw it at the Olive Garden itself, where so many of his colleagues had childhood horror stories of family dysfunction, chaos, addiction, crime.
Their mom was struggling with addiction all while the boys were growing up.
And I was just a little kid, so I didn't really understand why, but as I got older, I realized we had drug addiction in my family, including later cocaine addiction.
And I realized there were loads of incredibly basic questions I just didn't know the answer to, like, what really causes addiction?
And the thing I realized that really blew my mind is, almost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong, and if we start to absorb the new evidence about addiction, I think we're going to have to change a lot more than our drug policies.
Professor Alexander explained to me, the idea of addiction we've all got in our heads, that story, comes partly from a series of experiments that were done earlier in the 20th century.
Now, if you believe the story about chemical hooks, that makes absolutely no sense, but Professor Alexander began to think there might be a different story about addiction.
He said, what if addiction isn't about your chemical hooks?
What if addiction is about your cage?
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