Sentence examples for physical addiction from inspiring English sources

Last year it hosted Dr. Alan Leshner of the National Institute on Drug Abuse saying scientists were discovering there was little difference between so-called psychological and physical addiction; the brain waves and dopamine spikes in a drug addict and a gambling addict are strikingly similar.

But there's a psychological and physical addiction to smoking.

Psychological addiction is far more insidious than physical addiction.

Attracted to extremes, Clark also began taking heroin to "discover physical addiction".

The physical addiction had been dismantled, but the compulsion grew unchecked without its frame.

Unlike some tranquilizers and drugs like cocaine or heroin, Artane does not produce physical addiction.

In essence, non-physical and physical addictions are much the same, even if we society assumes they're different.

In essence, nonphysical and physical addictions are much the same, even if we, society, assumes they're different.

And although we usually associate abstinence difficulties with physical addictions, we often struggle to imagine that behaviors could create the same problems.

And although we usually associate abstinence difficulties with physical addictions, we often struggle to imagine that behaviours could create the same problems.

Each have experienced a non-physical addiction, and each illustrate what it's like to have a mental illness that's broadly considered fake.