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addiction
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "tendency," of habits, pursuits, etc.; 1640s as "state of being self-addicted," from Latin addictionem (nominative addictio ) "an awarding, a devoting," noun of action from past participle stem of addicere (see addict (v.)). Earliest sense was less ...
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Addiction is a 2004 Finnish romantic drama film directed by Minna Virtanen . It is the last film in the Restless trilogy, preceded by Restless (2000) and Me and Morrison (2001).
Usage examples of addiction.
Substance addiction suffer from some other recognized form of psychiatric disorder, too.
Smoking, like all drug addiction, is a tug-of-war of fear: the fear of what the drug is doing to us, and the fear of not being able to enjoy or cope with life without it.
Get it clearly into your mind: one ingenuity of the nicotine trap is that, like all drug addiction, it is designed to keep you hooked, and that the more it adversely affects your health and purse, the more securely you appear to be hooked.
Can you think of any pastime, other than drug addiction, that works in this way?
Another subtle aspect of addiction is that, although it is the first dose that hooks us, the whole process is usually so subtle and gradual that it can take years for us to realize that we are actually hooked.
Like all other forms of drug addiction, the tendency is to have to light up more often, which merely perpetuates the process.
Like all drug addiction the lower it drags you down, the greater your need for what you believe to be your crutch and friend.
It is only now, some eighteen years later, that increasing numbers of experts are beginning to realize that it is the psychological state of the individual addict that counts and not the substance itself My accumulated knowledge of drug addiction comes from eighteen years of dealing with and answering effectively the questions and worries of the addicted.
What a terrible trap drug addiction is: part of your brain wants you to smoke more, and whenever you do the other part wants you to smoke less.
I could obliterate smoking and all drug addiction with just one billionth of those funds.
The true reason was my addiction to nicotine, which caused me to have the stress in the first place.
I would explain to both of them the terrible power that nicotine addiction holds over its victims.
The nature of nicotine addiction is that it leaves you feeling permanently hungry and therefore more liable to become overweight.
Nicotine addiction currently claims over four million victims every year.
They too are beginning to feel the effects of addiction and be attracted to it.