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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a certain addiction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but unspecified addiction, often in a context where the nature of the addiction is not disclosed.
Example: "She admitted to having a certain addiction that she struggled to overcome."
Alternatives: "a particular addiction" or "an unspecified addiction".
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There's a certain addiction to Twitter.
One student said that the experience of stimulants providing support in one's daily routine might facilitate addiction: "A certain addiction can definitely come up very quickly because it helps someone in their everyday life and with all these pressures to perform an addiction can be expected".
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Mr. Guerster, a venture capitalist, conceded a certain BlackBerry addiction, but he said the ability to send e-mail as thoughts popped into his head had made him more productive and more focused because he no longer had to keep lists in his head.
I don't want to minimize the physiological aspects of certain addictions and cravings.
Another man, Raymond Bell, a pastor of the Cowboy Church of Virginia, made headlines with claims that sessions involving the stroking of horses could help "cure" certain "addictions" like homosexuality.
A secondary use of disulfiram is to inhibit brain dopamine beta-hydroxylase during the treatment of certain addictions [ 56, 57], thus indicating sufficient blood brain penetration.
She speaks of her husband's suicide attempt, his police record, his struggle with bipolar disorder and his drug and alcohol addiction with a certain detachment, even nonchalance.
"It's a community of close-knit neighborhoods, and when the addiction got into a certain neighborhood you could see it spread out from there," said Ms. Brennan, who described the conspiracy as predatory because the defendants would give pills away to get people addicted.
Valentish ran a certain risk publishing a women's addiction memoir, and she knows it.
With process addictions engaging in a certain activity, say viewing pornography, compulsive eating or an obsessive relationship with money, can kick start the release of brain/body chemicals, like dopamine, that actually produce a "high" that's similar to the chemical high of a drug.
Dr. Judith Feinberg, an addiction and harm-reduction researcher at West Virginia University, told me, "I can see why institutions like drug courts and prisons like it," because it embodies "a certain punitive, puritanical attitude towards people in addiction".
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