Sentence examples for addict up from inspiring English sources

I was a junkie when I turned 20, and I was a heroin addict up until about four years ago, when I began a methadone treatment.

The outcome of that is not, he argues, "to lock mentally ill patients or drug addicts up forever and throw away the key" but instead, to mirror a program in Providence, Rhode Island highlighted in the report that seems to be working.

*** I felt like a crack addict calling up my dealer.

She witnessed an addict "shooting up" and felt the perverse appeal of the ritual.

Much would remain the same -- most of the cast, the patois ("you dig") and an addict shooting up -- but now would be immortalized in shimmery celluloid.

Trying to understand it is a lot like trying to understand why a heroin addict shoots up again and again, given the depredation at the end of the needle.

A colleague of mine (and fellow Mad Men addict) brought up Phyllis Schlafly.

The psychic pain and chronic discomfort the imbalance causes may be there long before the addict picks up a drug.

"Addict" conjures up a bad person who belongs in a jail cell, not someone worthy of receiving high quality medical care.

Bono mimed the actions of a heroin addict, rolling up his sleeves and then spiking his arm during the final lyric, after which he would sing "Hallelujah" over and over while reaching up into a pillar of white light.

An alcoholic and drug addict opens up about the destructive habits he developed as a means to escape his everyday life.