Addiction in sentence

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What if addiction is an adaptation to your environment?

Looking at this, there was another professor called Peter Cohen in the Netherlands who said, maybe we shouldn't even call it addiction.

And a core part of addiction, I came to think, and I believe the evidence suggests, is about not being able to bear to be present in your life.

There was a doctor in Canada, Dr. Gabor Maté, an amazing man, who said to me, if you wanted to design a system that would make addiction worse, you would design that system.

Addiction in every study is significantly down.

A lot of us feel like that, and it might sound weird to say, I've been talking about how disconnection is a major driver of addiction and weird to say it's growing, because you think we're the most connected society that's ever been, surely.

And Bruce Alexander, the guy who did the Rat Park experiment, says, we talk all the time in addiction about individual recovery, and it's right to talk about that, but we need to talk much more about social recovery.

I think all along we should have been singing love songs to them, because the opposite of addiction is not sobriety.

The opposite of addiction is connection.

Perhaps love is a temporary or permanent addiction to a person, just like a person can be addicted to a drug.

They're creating an artificial environment so we can satisfy our own addiction to color.

Black and Latino patients are twice as likely to receive no pain medication as whites for the same painful long bone fractures because of stereotypes that black and brown people feel less pain, exaggerate their pain, and are predisposed to drug addiction.

Many male journalists in my society, they want to cover a story about drug addiction in my country.

Many years ago my teacher wrote, "When students are treated as consumers, they're made prisoners of addiction and envy."

The addiction that plagued my community also plagued my family, and even, sadly, my own mom.

In this case, we're talking about metaphors about pain and addiction and madness.

You see, I grew up in a family riddled with addiction, and as a kid, I also struggled with coming to terms with my own sexuality.

I've heard too many heartbreaking stories of people who've lost loved ones to addiction.

My husband, Dave, and I walk over to the steps of the Supreme Court to celebrate that decision with so many other people, and I couldn't help but think how far we came around LGBT rights and yet how far we needed to go around issues of addiction.

But my addiction did.

At one point, a congressional staffer said that there was no way that I was going to be confirmed by the United States Senate because of my past, despite the fact that I had been in recovery for over 20 years, and despite the fact that this job takes a little bit of knowledge around addiction.

So, you know, this is the stigma that people with substance use disorders face every single day, and you know, I have to tell you it's still why I'm more comfortable coming out as a gay man than I am as a person with a history of addiction.

Nearly every family in America is affected by addiction.

And those of us with an addiction, we hear those voices, and somehow we believe that we are less deserving of care and treatment.

But somehow people with addiction have to wait for treatment or often can't get when they need it.

And left untreated, addiction has significant, dire consequences.

Unless we change the way that we view people with addiction in the United States.

All of us know someone who has an addiction, and all of us can do our part to change how we view people with addiction in the United States.

And together, we can be part of a growing movement in the United States to change how we view people with addiction.

Let's talk about cocaine addiction.

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