Sentence examples for expensive addiction from inspiring English sources

A "complete punter" in triathlon terms at the beginning of 2012, to the extent that I couldn't actually swim front crawl, I soon became an addict – though admittedly it's a more wholesome (yet no less expensive) addiction than the drug-related kind.

It's fair to say that my love of learning is viewed by my family and friends as some kind of expensive addiction.

Vivitrol is also the most expensive addiction medication, with Medicaid paying about $500 per shot, according to Alkermes, and private insurers paying $1,000.

It was provoked by a series of reports showing that people looking for help were being essentially traded like commodities and sent to incredibly expensive "addiction centers" that often provided little recovery help at all.

Pursuing them is an expensive, macho addiction.

And the new SCC numbers show just how expensive our addiction to fossil fuels has become.

In pursuit of the perfect home espresso - what they call "the God shot" - I gleefully joined their ranks, kicking off the most expensive and pointless addiction of my life.

On Sept. 27, Carol Gotbaum agreed to fly to Arizona and spend a month at Cottonwood de Tucson, an expensive but spare addiction-treatment clinic.

A heroin addiction is expensive to maintain, and such addicts, when not gainfully employed, often must engage in prostitution, procuring, burglary, robbery, or small-time narcotics peddling to supply their habit.

Also gone is Tom Price, secretary of health and human services, done in by his addiction to expensive private plane trips.

She started researching the condition and learned that "most amputees are prescribed antipsychotics and barbiturates, which are expensive and have high addiction rates".