Sentence examples for prolonged addiction from inspiring English sources

A jet-ski accident in 1997 led to a prolonged addiction to the painkiller Vicodin.

Largely confined to bed due to prolonged addiction to booze and fags, Hilton, through the remaining three years of his life, went on to produce one of the most touching and enchanting painting series of the 20th century.

That was the result, Merin said, of prolonged drug addiction.

That's because back in 1996, Congress decided it would be a good idea to encourage deepwater drilling by offering royalty-free leases in certain areas that wouldn't be otherwise commercially interesting.Which is fine, if you believe in prolonging our addiction to fossil fuels; but that's another discussion.

But it suggests that isn't happening — about three-quarters of e-cigarette users also smoke cigarettes — and the products may be harmful if they prolong smokers' addiction.

Mountaintop removal, fracking and the tar sands oil that the pipeline is intended to transport are all part of the same big problem: poisoning the water of people who live near them, while prolonging our addiction to climate-change-causing fossil fuels.

Although she needed to overcome her drug addiction, the prolonged break she took from acting at the height of her fame seems consistent with a taste for self-sabotage that she freely owns.

A cohort study of smokers recruited from community health centres into proactive telephone support found that less addiction predicted prolonged abstinence at 30 days 16.

Second, the environmentalists argue, the $22 billion invested here represents an enormous step in the wrong direction, prolonging North America's addiction to oil.

United States policy makers, meanwhile, seem equally willing to prolong America's addiction to cheap money as long as economic recovery seems so fragile, regardless of the effect on the dollar's exchange rate with other currencies.

One student in the study likened prolonged separation from the Internet drug addiction, saying she was "itching like a crackhead" after not using the Internet for a bit.