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the addictions
noun
A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
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"In that minute, it was like all the addictions stopped.
Treat the early stages of depression and it could stop the addictions like gambling, drink, drugs starting.
"You see what their childhoods were really like with the addictions and abuse in their households," Apatow says.
In the addictions field, it used to be thought that you couldn't help people if they seemed unmotivated.
We are a nation of addicts; no social scientist will change that fact, and no policy will be successful until the addictions are recognized and confronted.
Every study of homeless single adults has found that a decided majority suffer from mental illness and the addictions that are its handmaidens.
The recognition would mean that the addictions specialty would qualify as a "primary" residency, one that a newly minted doctor could enter right out of school.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the American Lung Association or to the Peggy and Joe Murray Memorial Fund for Scholarship in the Addictions.
Mr Melly was possibly the most popular jazzman in Britain, and certainly the most outrageous.Like all the addictions of his life, jazz burst on him at school.
As it turned out, just before the addictions did finish him, he changed his mind, went into rehab, and lived to tell this tale.
They want to be better people: either by kicking their addictions, or by making it clear that the addictions don't necessarily define who they are.
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