(v. t.) To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.
(v. t.) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(2) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(3) We studied the arterial blood gas determinations done on the first hospital day in 14 narcotic addicts with bacterial endocarditis (group 1) and six addicts with other medical complications of narcotic addiction (group 2).
(4) We have investigated the presence of fragments of the HIV genome with a new nucleic acid amplification technique (PCR or polymerase chain reaction) in lymphocytes from 33 seronegative couples with anti-HIV antibodies, most of which were heroin addicts.
(5) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
(6) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(7) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
(8) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(9) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
(10) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
(11) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
(12) Of 242 north Italian heroin addicts, 24 (9.9%) were HBsAg positive.
(13) Both groups of addicts had an altered response to oral and intravenous glucose load.
(14) Both heroin and alcohol addicts were characterized by a high frequency and magnitude of life change.
(15) Grahovac’s addiction arrived on the back of an untreated eating disorder.
(16) The WHO said that e-cigarettes should be subject to much tighter restrictions on their use, sale, content and promotion, in a major statement that again highlighted key differences of opinion among medical groups as to whether they will ultimately increase or reduce the number of people addicted to nicotine.
(17) But why did a pregnant heroin addict, or Nadia and the mother who put her into care, want to appear?
(18) High morbidity of such persons is often contributed to their antisocial way of life, and alcohol and drug addiction.
(19) One hundred eighty-eight asymptomatic addicts were studied to determine the frequency of a history of hepatitis (previous episodes of jaundice), abnormalities of liver tests (serum bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, serum albumin, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase) and incidence of HB-Ag and HB-Ab.
(20) Paraphilias (PAs) and non-paraphilic sexual addictions (NPSAs) may be behaviors that share a common perturbation of central serotonin neuroregulation as a component of their pathophysiology.
Junkie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is that as a nation we have become promotion junkies."
(2) Hard to see the woman who once observed that “the creative winds of destruction don’t feel quite so exhilarating when they’re sweeping past your factory gates” embracing tech giants as uncritically as the tech junkie Osborne.
(3) Women are dead (McAdams), betrayed (Laurence) or embittered (Rita Ora, on hand as a “tough junkie with a kid to protect”, according to Harvey Weinstein).
(4) Frischmann would later confess to having lived the life of a 'sad junkie' between 1996 and 1998.
(5) I was an adrenaline junkie, in your face, always out.
(6) Across all three main parties, too many politicians have yet to understand the nightmare thus created: supposed value-for-money being realised via the slashing of wages, corrosion of conditions, and a degraded quality of service; or the reverse of cash savings, as contracting out creates private monopolies, and companies hailed for their dynamism turn out to be subsidy junkies.
(7) Tulsa remains Clark's most visceral book, an insider's view of a period in the mid-1960s when he was a teenager living what he calls, without irony, "the outlaw life" – shooting up speed, having sex with his strung-out girlfriends and hanging out with his gun-toting junkie friends.
(8) Happy, successful, stable people seldom inject smack, whereas most junkies suffered catastrophic childhoods, often in care and often abused.
(9) Unless we figure out how to make the important stuff really engaging, I don’t know that it reaches a broad audience.” Pariser said we’re moving into a period with a power curve where “news junkies have never had it better... but for most people who don’t seek out content about important stuff, and expect to just have it surfaced in their media environment may be having that happen less.
(10) Hang on a minute – Jonny Greenwood, programmer extraordinaire, guitar-obsessive , new-sound junkie, wants to give up electricity and electronics?
(11) Not all of us know someone with the incredible talent that Amy had but we all know drunks and junkies and they all need help and the help is out there.
(12) Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos is supremely confident that reviving the sitcom Arrested Development, which was made available globally online last night in a single 15-episode junkie-pleasing hit, will be the latest "slam dunk" in the video streaming service's mission to revolutionise the TV industry.
(13) Adrenaline junkies can try their hand at extreme sports.
(14) People don’t look on pain pills like you’re a junkie.
(15) The Bronx, which had been a bastion of desirable upper-middle-class living until the mid-60s, was now burning nightly; once-magnificent apartment houses going up in flames lit by junkies or landlords looking to dispose of buildings they could no longer let or maintain.
(16) "A foul-tempered Woody Allen," said the headline in the Times review of Juvenalia ; "if Lenny Bruce had not been a Jewish junkie," opined the Financial Times, "he might have turned out a little like Juvenal."
(17) As heroin had been banned in the interim, this only further served to stigmatize recreational opiate users, who were marginalized as junkies.
(18) I'm just an ordinary person, I'm not scum, I'm not a thief or a junkie, but when you are desperate you end up resorting to desperate means.
(19) This article describes developments in The Netherlands with a special focus on those issues that can be described as "typically Dutch": the divergent "opium-act," the methadone buses, the Junkie League, and the plans for heroin maintenance.
(20) While I was busy becoming a world-class junkie, the man from HIGNFY became mayor.