Sentence examples for addictions- from inspiring English sources

But developing drugs for other addictions is a riskier commercial proposition, largely because so many addicts are poor and, in America at least, their health insurance will not always pay the bill.Yet every dollar spent on drug-abuse treatment could save as much as seven times that in medical and social costs.

I am not talking about alcoholics – you wouldn't penalise people for addictions – but a doctor could easily make the distinction.

They they all are, hooking their necks down to make their abs stick out – Magic Mike, one of his friends, and one of the werewolves from Twilight who's turned to stripping as a last resort to fund his twin addictions to fake tan and pasties.

To lie to your husband, kids, lovers, friends and sponsor about your addictions?

When more dangerous addictions took hold, the saga of Troubled Gazza began to overwhelm the footballer himself.

Amy Winehouse, whose life was dogged by drug and alcohol abuse, was killed by an eating disorder rather than by her addictions, according to her brother.

The programme was a three-part drama starring Sarah Lancaster and Ian Hart, that chronicled the lives of the murdered women and their families, and the drug addictions that drove them to prostitution.

Alcoholism, like all addictions, is a mental illness.

Look at how small the beat is.' Page said that '99.9 per cent' of women worked on the streets to feed their addictions.

As it turned out, just before the addictions did finish him, he changed his mind, went into rehab, and lived to tell this tale.

I've watched too many couples miraculously negotiate tough times – from addictions and serial adultery to bi-polar disorder – only to fall apart once the normality they aspired to becomes reality.