What is "addictions"

Usage examples of "addictions".

In terms of the application of science-based knowledge, there is a belief among professionals that compulsive sex, shopping, gambling, and Internet use are related to each other and to drug and alcohol addiction, but that the addictions are different from the anxiety-based obsessive-compulsive disorders dealt with in chapter 5.

Many of the sexual addictions involve a dehumanization of the target person or group.

He killed seventeen women, he had never been gainfully employed for any extended period of time, he suffered from an array of addictions and compulsions, and he was never self-sufficient.

The infant is apparently now in a South Shore hospital incubator, attached to machines and tapering off the Clonidine285 it received for in-utero addictions to substances Kate Gompert can only speculate about.

Unhealthy, destructive shame is the cause of many kinds of addictions and compulsions.