Sentence examples for be physically addicted to from inspiring English sources

High-functioning alcoholics also may not be physically addicted to alcohol, abstaining for days or weeks without suffering withdrawal symptoms.

In discussing one of them, he cites the work of Dr. John Ratey, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard who believes people can be physically addicted to e-mail.

Caution: If you have any reason to think that you might be physically addicted to alcohol and at risk of suffering withdrawal symptoms (e.g., shakes, agitation, extreme anxiety, insomnia, seizures, etc)., it is essential that you consult a medical doctor before you significantly reduce your alcohol intake or stop drinking abruptly.

Maybe you really enjoy that cup of coffee in the morning, and at lunch, and at dinnertime, but that doesn't mean your body is physically addicted to it.

It was on a winter work trip that I realized I was physically addicted to heroin.

It was on a work trip to the snowfields near the Victorian border that I realised I was physically addicted to heroin.

Cocaine is habit-forming and may also be physically addicting.

That will help to classify smokers better (some are social smokers while others are physically addicted) and thus enable "quitting" programmes to be customised.Results such as Dr Vink's must be interpreted with care.

I was physically addicted.

"If I find a drug that works for me then I'm going to be psychologically addicted to it even if I'm not physically addicted to it, and it will do for me what I feel I ought to be doing for myself," says Keeling. "It's like that Louis Theroux documentary about medicated children: on the one hand, if you had a nightmare kid, why wouldn't you put him on Ritalin?

If you take buprenorphine while physically addicted to an opiate you will go into precipitated withdrawal.