Sentence examples for terms addiction from inspiring English sources

The terms "addiction" and "dependency" are often used interchangeably but are distinct.

We searched for programs using the terms "addiction", "mental health", "child welfare", "justice", "advocacy", and "outreach", and recorded the contact information for all agencies indicating that their target population includes youth aged 12 to 24 years, or a subset of this age range.

The report doesn't use the term "addiction," but the similarity between uncontrolled dependence on an addictive substance and academe's dependence on underpaid and overly numerous graduate students and postdocs makes the word apt in this context.

The New York Police Department was eager to find a culprit other than the actor's long-term addiction, and quickly settled on Robert Aaron legal name Robert Aaron Vineberg a musician and addict who said he sometimes sold heroin to friends.

Especially given my long-term addiction to music.

But precarious mental health is not the only risk for long-term addiction.

That Mr. Limbaugh, with his advocacy of stiff punishment for drug offenders, would himself admit to a long-term addiction was evocative of the situation that Mr. Bennett was in earlier this year.

Both have a long-term addiction to their own supply, and maybe Quell and Dodd are the ancestors of showbiz faith; they fully understand the masses' opiate, having tested it extensively on themselves.

The advent of the critically credentialled TV epic, and of the boxed set, amplified my TV habit, already a long-term addiction, into a form of brain-scrambling suicide.

Her most significant long-term addiction, though, has been to the science of scanning the brain with techniques that expose its workings like a map, a passion she has pursued like a guided missile since medical school.

To the Editor: A.D.H.D. diagnoses too often result in the medicating of children with stimulants that can lead to long-term addiction and abuse of other narcotics later in life.