Sentence examples for debilitating addictions from inspiring English sources

The emotional and psychological free for all spiralling around me as a kid pretty much guaranteed that I'd develop a series of debilitating addictions, court potentially lethal violence and begin the slow inevitable slide toward prison.

It's one of the most debilitating addictions because it interferes with absolutely everything we do.

And as others have discovered, Wall Street is a tantalizing temptation before it becomes a debilitating addiction.

She is also among the latest to have apparently shed a debilitating addiction as lightly as she might have a few unwanted pounds.

For many it is just good fun, but for some it becomes a debilitating addiction which wrecks lives: they need bigger wins to satisfy their craving, and when forced to stop they suffer withdrawal symptoms.Henry Chase of the University of Nottingham and Luke Clark of the University of Cambridge, are interested in the cognitive complexities of gamblers.

This dependence turned into a debilitating addiction.

Quite clearly the influence of his debilitating addiction to cannabis use – perhaps a toxic hangover from his former life as a DJ – could well have played a major part in all this – though that can be no excuse.

Bynes has been sober for four years, after a debilitating addiction to pills that triggered several troubling public scenes and slashing Twitter comments.

The drawbacks are a bitter taste on the back of your tongue, the possibility of an overdose, or debilitating addiction, and prison if you're unlucky or careless.

He moved to Vancouver Island with his wife Susan, and spent time mentoring prisoners and convicts, while also writing poetry, plays, fiction, and teaching classes in creative writing and secretly battling a debilitating addiction to heroin and cocaine.

Both Kiedis and Slovak struggled with debilitating heroin addictions, which grew worse as the band was preparing to record Uplift.