Under the irrational addiction model, decisions about consuming addictive substances are motivated by emotion, rather than logic.
Based on Zane's best-selling novel of the same title, the Oct. 10 film follows successful businesswoman, Zoe Reynard (played by Sharon Leal), as her marriage is put at risk as a result of her life consuming sex addiction.
His "Bedbound," seen here in 2003, portrays a shut-in father and daughter, in bed together for eternity, for whom talking about what brought them there is an all-consuming addiction.
It had now become a powerful, all-consuming addiction.
"We have an addiction to consuming animal products and it's hurting our environment.
The reason phones are bulking up in the screen department comes down to our addiction to consuming data, coupled with the ever-increasing richness of data services.
It is possible that our study participants transitioned to injection drug use from other addictions without consuming alcohol.
For example, Obama (D'Souza explains) attributes the energy crisis to America's "addiction" to oil, and his response to that addiction — to our consuming a disproportionate share of the world's energy reserves — is to propose "cap and trade policies … aimed at taxing America and using some of that money to subsidize the wretched of the earth".
This higher rate of smoking cessation among alcohol consumers in this population could be due to the fact that the practice of another habit that promotes addiction such as consuming alcohol eases and lessen the withdrawal symptoms in the process of removing the addiction and dependency to nicotine that is found in cigarettes.
Biscuits are good, but I have a Seinfeldian addiction to cereal, consuming bowls of the stuff day and night.
Anyone who can still concentrate on their hobbies is not in the grips of an all-consuming chemical addiction.
