Sentence examples for all forms of addiction from inspiring English sources

All forms of addiction, according to Burroughs, are counterproductive for writing, and the only gain to his own work from his 15 years as an addict came from the knowledge he acquired of the bizarre, carnival milieu in which the drug taker is preyed upon as victim.

One of the many biochemical changes that occurs in nearly all forms of addiction is the increased activity of the protein ΔFosB in the nucleus accumbens.

Organizations and 12-step programs exist for almost all forms of addiction.

In the salad days of infatuation the high levels of dopamine (the pleasure-seeking hormone) combined with the low levels of serotonin (that helps us to feel calm and relaxed) combine to create a crafty reward system that is nearly indistinguishable from all other forms of addiction.

Yet, and this may be even more difficult to believe, only one in 10 people with any form of addiction report receiving any treatment -- at all.

POWELL -- Is putting themselves in that kind of danger in itself a form of addiction?

"Roberto never suffered any form of addiction to drugs, including heroin," she said in a letter.

However, one widely published but inaccurate detail seems to have made its way into the piece, and Roberto Bolaño's widow, Carolina López, and I would like to clarify that Roberto never suffered any form of addiction to drugs, including heroin.

He deemed the consumption of mysteries a form of addiction, on a level with smoking and doing crossword puzzles, while woefully wondering what the likes of T. S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats saw in them.

Is starvation in anorexia nervosa (AN) or overeating in bulimia nervosa (BN) a form of addiction?

Anything we use to distract ourselves is a form of addiction.