"addiction cycle" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the repetitive pattern of behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that contribute to a person's addiction to a substance or activity. You can use "addiction cycle" when discussing the characteristics and effects of addiction, or when explaining how the cycle perpetuates and intensifies the addiction. Example: "Breaking free from the addiction cycle requires addressing the underlying emotional and psychological factors that drive the destructive behavior."
In this review, we present a select group of genome-wide association studies of alcohol dependence, as one example of a way to generate functional hypotheses, within the addiction cycle framework.
Maya's addiction cycle, and her attempts at breaking it, structure the novel.
Eventually, the beer would not be enough for me and I'd be back in the vicious addiction cycle again.
However, my website happens to discuss the highs and lows of sexual satiety in terms of the highs and lows of the typical addiction cycle.
When fat is removed from a food-like product (note, I do not call it food) more CRAP goes in and our bodies don't recognize it as food, but the addiction cycle continues and we crave and eat more," Knowles says.
Instead of, say, unendingly backing dictators like the Shah of Iran until the repression creates the condition for a catastrophic fundamentalist revolution (overdose), we should be looking for ways to proactively break this addiction cycle completely as a way to avoid such catastrophe.
This, I fear, is the dystopian future of stupid games: amoral corporations hiring teams of behavioral psychologists to laser-target our addiction cycles for profit.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) shows a staggering increase in heroin abuse in the United States — particularly among women and wealthy Americans — but some addiction experts say there is hope that the drug's popularity will soon follow the pattern of previous addiction cycles and begin to fade.
In the words of the CBA, "appropriate sentencing must occur to ensure that there is an opportunity for the drug addiction robbery cycle to be broken".
She was a sex worker, struggled with addictions, and cycled in and out of custody.
By 15, I was diagnosed as an addict and the cycle of addiction consumed the next decade of my life.
