Vocabulary Word
Word: addiction
Definition: compulsive habitual need
Definition: compulsive habitual need
Sentences Containing 'addiction'
"Whitetail Journey" replaces Roller's first show "Tim Roller's Wild Addiction".
His drug addiction raged out of control after moving to East Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991.
He stands as one of the three Presidents of the UK-based charity Action on Addiction.
and Gulietta leaves Hawaii having developed a slight cocaine addiction.
The DSM-IV does not use the word "addiction" at all.
Drugs known to cause addiction include both legal and illegal drugs as well as prescription or over-the-counter drugs, according to the definition of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
There are strong associations between poverty and addiction.
It has long been established that genetic factors along with social and psychological factors are contributors to addiction.
Similar rates of heritability for other types of drug addiction have been indicated by other studies.
An article in "The Lancet" compared the harm and addiction of 20 drugs, using a scale from 0 to 3 for physical addiction, psychological addiction, and pleasure to create a mean score for addiction.
In addition to the reward pathway, it is hypothesized that stress mechanisms also play a role in addiction.
This makes them want another dose of the drug, and can worsen the addiction.
Addiction is a complex but treatable disease.
For some people, addiction becomes chronic, having periodic relapses even after long periods of abstinence.
Many different ideas circulate regarding what is considered a "successful" outcome in the recovery from addiction.
Programs that emphasize controlled drinking exist for alcohol addiction.
Opiate replacement therapy has been a medical standard of treatment for opioid addiction for many years.
Treatments and attitudes toward addiction vary widely among different countries.
The supporters of programs with total abstinence from drugs as a goal believe that enabling further drug use just means prolonged drug use and risks an increase in addiction and complications from addiction.
CBT sees addiction as a behavior rather than a disease and subsequently curable, or rather, unlearnable.
Substitute drugs for other forms of drug dependence have historically been less successful than opioid substitute treatment, but some limited success has been seen with drugs such as dextroamphetamine to treat stimulant addiction, and clomethiazole to treat alcohol addiction.
Bromocriptine and desipramine have been reported to be effective for treatment of cocaine but not amphetamine addiction.
Another area in which drug treatment has been widely used is in the treatment of nicotine addiction.
Alternative therapies, such as acupuncture, are used by some practitioners to alleviate the symptoms of drug addiction.
Addiction as the result of an evolutionary mismatch.
Addiction as the result of coevolution with psychoactive substances.
Evolutionary perspectives on vulnerability to addiction.
The phenomenon of drug addiction has occurred to some degree throughout recorded history (see "Opium").
Bubbles is recovering from his drug addiction while living in his sister's basement.
Since then, Gahan had also developed a heroin addiction, which slowed the recording process.
In the meantime, Hunter developed a serious heroin addiction.
Sugar addiction is the term for the relationship between sugar and the various aspects of food addiction including: "bingeing, withdrawal, craving and cross-sensitization".
Some scientists assert that consumption of sweets or sugar could have a heroin addiction like effect.
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These behaviors were said to be related to neurochemical changes in the brain that also occur during addiction to drugs.
In this film, Kathryn doesn't appear to have a cocaine addiction.
Several cases of tanning addiction have been reported.
Though the mechanism by which tanning addiction occurs is unknown, some evidence indicates that the release of endorphins during the tanning process causes the pleasurable effects that underlie the addiction.
Martin's addiction got worse, even bringing him to steal painkillers from a victim's home.
The song refers to his increased heroin addiction and resultant sloppy live performances.
A key factor in distinguishing a bad habit from an addiction or mental disease is willpower.
The Addiction Research Center is a center of addiction research that was founded in 1948.
An addiction to gambling on prize-fights was one cause of his financial problems.
The first song, "White Slavery", deals with cocaine addiction.
After the ordeal, Daniel came to terms with his addiction and turned himself into the police.
The character's storylines included a herion addiction.
Taylor commented on Lucy's herion addiction saying "it wasn't pleasant.
Serious illness and alcohol addiction of Dhasal overshadowed the following years, during which he wrote very little.
A 2012 review found no problems with tolerance, abuse or addiction.
They added that addiction to such drugs as heroin or morphine was a minor problem in Great Britain.
Vollmer was against police involvement with the problem of drug addiction.