Sentence examples for call addiction from inspiring English sources

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So then, do you want to call addiction a disease?

"A lot of the behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit," he notes.

If we don't call addiction a disease, don't we risk going back to the bad old days of denigrating addicts as self-indulgent, spineless pariahs?

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The actions we call addictions have two possible purposes.

So, I'm going to put the scientific debate aside for now and challenge the idea that calling addiction a disease is beneficial for addicts.

Couldn't the Iraqi dictator's condition just as easily be called "addiction to power"?

Peter Provet, Odyssey House's president, calls addiction among those who are middle-aged and beyond "an unspoken, unaddressed problem".

"The danger in calling addiction a brain disease is people think that makes you a hapless victim," he says.

Dr. Babor, a top editor for Dr. Edwards's journal, now called Addiction, added, "He was the father of some of the major conceptual advances in this field".

Rather, it underscores the complexity and depth of the demon called addiction, a condition for which approximately 10percentt of us are vulnerable.

Eugenio had called addiction the Spider instead of the Disease, and dispensed his advice in terms of like for example "Feeding the Spider" v. "Starving the Spider" and so on.

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