Sentence examples for increase in addiction from inspiring English sources

Home Office kept tabs, as best they could, on the increase in addiction.

Since the clinics opened in '68, the increase in addiction has slowed markedly, so that though it isn't wiped out, it seems by any standards usually applied to public-health problems to be contained.

That would do nothing to deter outfits like the Zetas.Debates on legalisation are vetoed by consumer countries, which fear an increase in addiction were drugs to be made more freely available.

The hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the drug war has nothing to prevent the dramatic increase in addiction and overdose fatalities.

While drug use has always existed in human society, a sudden, widespread increase in addiction, suicide and multiple-drug overdose cannot just be a result of flashy ads and increased availability of numbing substances.

This means that an increase in addiction in a society will lead to an increase in levels of homelessness.

Both Europe and North America experienced major increases in addiction and overdoses over the past decade.

With opioid addiction rates still rising in many communities, we need an even greater increase in drug addiction and treatment awareness.

The epidemic followed a huge increase in heroin addiction among users sharing needles, said Dr. Beyrer, a specialist in AIDS in Southeast Asia.

("I am deeply concerned about what's happening in every community in America, and that includes white communities, where we are seeing an increase in alcoholism, addiction, earlier deaths").

This intermittent reinforcement causes an increase in information addiction as people check their mail and social network inboxes more frequently.