Many of our favorite public figures have crossed the line into addiction, from Elton John to Philip Seymour Hoffman to Robin Williams to Prince.
"Jack and Bobby," a family drama on WB from the creators of "West Wing" and "Everwood," starts with a plot line about marijuana addiction in which the mother, played by Christine Lahti, lights up 15 minutes into the pilot.
Billboards offering help and counseling to those with a "porn addiction" line the major metro areas along the freeway from Ogden to Provo.
Interspersed with poems about his Jewish family's experience in the second world war are lines about heroin addiction: "I'm back in the basement/ Heartsick, digging for a vein in February".
Ever since Samuel Pepys was sent to the Tower of London for party political reasons by a committee of Parliament happy to rely on the word of a paid informer, their habit of dividing on party lines is an addiction they can't escape.
Editorial: Doctors are on the front lines of opioid addiction.
Likewise, Moonlight includes story lines surrounding drug addiction.
Chaffee is on the front lines of battling addiction and other ailments teenagers face.
But when he did notice, and investigated, it was nothing to do with slurred late-night calls to premium-rate sex lines, or an addiction to train station-priced M&S "specials".
Of note, the effects on in vitro growth following suppression of DNA-PKcs were much more pronounced in HCC than in non-transformed liver cell lines, implying an addiction of liver tumour cells to DNA-PKcs in order to proliferate and survive.
David Sack recently cautioned in Psychology Today about the fine line between behavior and addiction, questioning whether Pokémon Go will drive up the percentages of internet addiction or pathological gaming.
