Sentence examples for addiction machine from inspiring English sources

Facebook is an enormous addiction machine that creates depression and spreads disinformation.

But working out how the addiction machine operates may point those looking for therapies in the right direction.

More accurate would be the assessment of Professor Egilman, a family health doctor who has served as expert witness in lawsuits filed against Purdue: the 12 hour dosing schedule, he told the Times, is "an addiction producing machine".

Women get special attention (Fruit Machine Addiction in Females: a Case Study), as do youths (Adolescent Gambling on Fruit Machines and several other monographs).

Case study: Publican lost everything to slot machine addiction Tony was a successful pub landlord and the owner of two houses.

It's a story that would fill a book — and just such a book has arrived: "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas" by Natasha Dow Schüll, an associate professor in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at M.I.T.

Natasha Dow Schull, an associate professor at M.I.T. and the author of "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas," describes the experience of playing Texas Hold 'Em Heads Up Poker as feeling as if you're taking on "a really good medieval automaton" with "a little man behind the curtain".

Owen Baily, a reformed gambling addict who now runs the Gambling Centre, which helps combat addiction, said the "machines suck money out of communities, families and their children.

The man allegedly stole $200,000 to feed an addiction to slot machines and video poker.

The same mechanic explains addiction to slot machines - games which require little skill but offer the promise of players hitting the jackpot.

There are things to be negative about – our addiction to poker machines for public revenue, our inability to debate transport solutions without partisanship, and our compulsive property speculation that results in dozens of mediocre apartment blocks.