Sentence examples for understanding of addiction from inspiring English sources

Russia still follows a Soviet-era understanding of addiction that expects addicts to go cold turkey, so putting them on methadone is seen as just trading one noxious high for another.

The majority of the estimated 20 million alcoholics and drug addicts in America (and millions more compulsive gamblers, overeaters and sex addicts, if you accept an expanded understanding of addiction) never get help.

Consider their understanding of addiction.

Amy Winehouse: Why is there so little understanding of addiction?

I think our understanding of addiction has grown enormously in the last fifteen years".

Ms. Dickson said the session helped further her understanding of addiction.

Dr. Shaffer has received many awards, including the 2010 American Psychological Association, Division 50, award for "Outstanding Contributions to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions". During 2015, he received the Lifetime Research Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling.

The project invited 17 European and three international drug disorder experts to provide an initial vision and a reframing as to how scientific, technological and social advancement may impact on our understanding of addictions and lifestyles over the next 20 years («Vision 2030+»).

Differing etiological understanding of addictions and varying educational/personal backgrounds are likely to influence the results.

While the church may work hard to face up to addiction problems, and update its policies to reflect current understandings of addiction, it could prove itself by designating dollars for those efforts.

This corroborates our previous qualitative research, which suggested that neuroscientific understandings of addiction were added to, and incorporated into, older ideas about addictions, making it unlikely that new ideas about addiction will produce dramatic shifts in the public's beliefs about addiction and its treatment [ 15, 16].