Eminem

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

American Rapper

Jimi Hendrix

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

American Musician

Ken Thompson

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

American Scientist

Jimmy White

I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.

English Celebrity

Fergie

You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

Marti Noxon

Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.

American Writer

Lily Allen

I'm always going to have an addictive personality.

English Musician

Kevin Plank

American Businessman

Hank Williams III

Trisha Goddard

English Entertainer

Describes a dependency that usually has harmful consequences or is viewed negatively.

Negative Implication

Can refer to legal substances or activities, like caffeine or video games, not just illicit drugs.

Not Always Illegal

Sometimes used hyperbolically to mean someone enjoys something a lot, not an actual addiction.

Hyperbolic Usage

To 'addict' indicates a process; it doesn't happen instantly but develops over time.

Gradual Process

Use 'addict' when the desire is so strong it feels like a need, not just a want.

Desire and Need

When used as an adjective, it implies a person is highly passionate about an activity or interest.

Passionate Engagement

Indicates a hobby or activity is central to someone's lifestyle or identity.

Lifestyle Descriptor

 because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop. And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love, and trying to figure out if there was some way to help them. And I realized there were loads of incredibly basic questions I just didn't know the answer to,

Everything you think you...

 Like all addictive drugs, it prompts a squirt of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens which gives users a surge of pleasure. Alcohol also causes some neurons to synthesize and release endorphins. Endorphins help us to calm down in response to stress or danger. Elevated levels of endorphins contribute to the euphoria

How does alcohol make...

 slowly or suddenly, you don't. You've fallen out of love, become unaddicted, for a spell. What happened? Does one develop a tolerance or hit a limit? Why do some lovers stay addicted to each other their entire lives? Perhaps to create new lives, to proliferate their species?

What is love? - Brad...

 that target these core mechanisms and, ironically, use the same technology that's driving us to distraction to help us step out of our unhealthy habit patterns of smoking, of stress eating and other addictive behaviors. Now, remember that bit about context-dependent memory?

A simple way to break a...

 in other words, to be addicted. Sugar also causes dopamine to be released, though not as violently as drugs. And sugar is rare among dopamine-inducing foods. Broccoli, for example, has no effect, which probably explains why it's so hard to get kids to eat their veggies.

How sugar affects the...

 addiction is not it's a number of hours you do something addiction arousal is you want variety one change to be addicted to anything means you would rather be doing that than anything in the world and when you're not doing it that's what you're thinking about doing

The Demise of Guys PIPE...

 addicted to crack cocaine. My environment consisted of living with family, friends, and homeless shelters. Oftentimes, dinner was served in breadlines and soup kitchens. The big homey told me money rules the world and everything in it.

How I learned to read --...

 and like an addict trying to kick a habit, the first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem. And let me just say, this profits mania that we're on is so deeply entrenched that we don't even realize how we're harming society.

Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...

 one is touched the other numbers are hidden and must now be remembered we volunteered Chris the director of this program to demonstrate this test he's a college graduate and a crossword addict but how good is his working memory when

Chimp vs Human! PIPE Memory...

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Addict

Negative Implication

Not Always Illegal

Hyperbolic Usage

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