Sentence examples for called addiction from inspiring English sources

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

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.

A series of recent surveys sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and by Faces and Voices of Recovery, a recovery advocacy group, found that half the public called addiction a personal weakness.

While many in the treatment field have long called addiction a "disease," they've used the word in vague and metaphorical ways, meaning everything from a disease of the mind to a disease of the spirit.

These kinds of addictions are rarely called addictions because everyone has this kind of addiction.

It was to this second class of behaviors — at the time, they were not called addictions — that he turned his attention.

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.

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

Sally L. Satel (Op-Ed, April 4) calls addiction a behavioral condition, not a disease.