What's the difference between addiction and temptation?

Addiction


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

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.

Temptation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
  • (n.) The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
  • (n.) That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
  • (2) We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil.
  • (3) Whereas a film documentary might piece together the sweatshop story through footage and anecdote, the game allows players to experience the system from the inside with all its cat's cradle of pressures and temptations.
  • (4) These and other maladies and temptations are a danger for every Christian and for any administrative organisation … and can strike at both the individual and the corporate level,” he said.
  • (5) Mancini resists the temptation to belt the Frenchman in the mouth as he walks past him.
  • (6) There's a temptation to supplement that with Pot Noodles.
  • (7) The surgeon should resist the temptation to do fast procedures.
  • (8) "The temptation to pressure ITV commissioners to favour in-house ideas will be hard to resist.
  • (9) The contribution of demographics (age, martial status), chronicity (previous alcohol hospitalizations, years of problem drinking), coping (temptation, cognitive coping), and early aftercare attendance, in predicting drinking outcomes was examined using hierarchical regression and discriminant analyses.
  • (10) "The temptation is going to be to see these attacks as an indication of greater co-ordination, to which I would say maybe, maybe not," said John Campbell, the former US ambassador to Nigeria.
  • (11) The speaker concluded by encouraging Philippine nurses to resist the temptation to work abroad to make more money and instead stay in the Philippines to care for their own people.
  • (12) Interesting to see that US soccer have resisted any temptation to switch the Mexico game to Sporting Park, despite a lot of lobbying that they do so.
  • (13) Britain has historically resisted the temptations of political extremism, but largely because for most of the last century its economy, even if disappointing, has been resilient, while its political system has enjoyed widespread legitimacy.
  • (14) "One of the things I say always to new members of the service is that there may be a temptation to cut those corners but in the longer term that will be a real problem to us," he said.
  • (15) Unwin directed As You Like It, which closes this weekend: he will then give away a tonne of topsoil from the set to a local school, resisting the temptation to set up in the neighbouring market place and sell it.
  • (16) The risks stem from the temptation to seek solutions to national problems in the experience of other countries in a way that ignores the fact that whereas institutions may, in theory at least, be exportable, their social, political, and economic environment is not.
  • (17) The results showed that, when judges categorized subjects' open-ended responses to questions about their last relapse, temptations or urges in the presence of substance cues were accorded no importance as a reason for relapse, and these categorizations were similar in this respect to previously reported findings.
  • (18) It says: “The chancellor should also resist the temptation to raid universal credit.
  • (19) The economic need for rapid treatment while maintaining good standards of work, can result in pressure, and the temptation to 'cut corners' can prove costly.
  • (20) The primary care physician must often diagnose what things are not, rather than what they are, must make management decisions prior to, or instead of, diagnostic decisions and must resist the temptation to be ;thorough' These imperatives are reflected in the language family physicians sometimes use in their conversations with patients.