Embarrassed drug warriors blame this on alleged cultural differences, but even in fairly similar countries tough rules make little difference to the number of addicts: harsh Sweden and more liberal Norway have precisely the same addiction rates.
We've got exactly the same addiction to phosphate fertilisers too," he said.
Go back to the era of dictators and world wars and you can find exactly the same addiction to globaloney.
The cinema is a much bigger industry in France – and there's not the same addiction to America, to pleasing wider audiences, that we get in Britain.
"It's all wonderful people who share the same addiction, the same fascination, with the wonderful world of mushrooms," Ms. Snecinski said, adding that the members rely on each other not just for fun and friendship, but for education: eating the wrong mushroom can be deadly.
Now Leala, a political journalist, has made a programme for BBC Radio 4 in which she seeks to understand what happened to her father and why, despite his background as a doctor and his long experience of witnessing his wife's alcoholism, Pad was unable to prevent himself falling prey to the same addiction.
I surf all morning with Youness, the sea scattered with happy surfers (and camels, horses and dogs), each of them with the same addiction.
No matter what substance or behavior addicted individuals are battling, the path to lasting sobriety begins with support from other individuals recovering from the same addiction.
She thinks that trauma left Phillips vulnerable to the disease that killed her ― the same addiction epidemic that's wiping out an entire generation in Connellsville, a sleepy former coal town about an hour southeast of Pittsburgh.
The same addiction to PHGDH therefore might manifest as distinct metabolite addictions - some cell lines might require serine, others α-ketoglutarate, and still others reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
