addiction

Experts say addiction has led men to spend money on khat that could have been used for their children’s education or to upgrade the quality of their family’s life.

What made you want to write a memoir now about your “addiction” to film?

I had graduated NYU just a few years earlier and begun a career in publishing, but the addiction got the best of me.

The lure and addiction of gaming—which went back to pinball, of course—became a sensation with Asteroids.

Those suffering from addiction in the streets risk disease, overdose, and death.

Addiction is a human problem, and this is the Native American version of it.

The man's purplish red face, his heavy eyelids, the nervous twitchings, all spoke of his addiction to drink.

No nation, indeed, can reproach another nation with its addiction to magic without in an equal degree condemning itself.

Perhaps the ordinary public has seldom been more unjust than in its estimate of Coleridge's addiction to opium.

Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.

Addiction crowds out friendship, ambition, moral conviction, and reduces all the richness of life to a single destructive desire.