drug addiction
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3.4
- noun
- /drʌɡ əˈdɪkʃən/
- NSFW
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adicción a las drogas
- Anyone can experience drug addiction, no matter their background or circumstances.
- drug addiction treatment
- crime and drug addiction
- drug addiction and alcoholism
We need to treat drug addiction as an addiction, as a health problem.
- We need to treat drug addiction as an addiction, as a health problem.
- That means less opioids, less drug addiction, less alcohol overdose and religiosity.
- And you know, it's very much like drug addiction.
- And that caused so much pain in him that he escaped into some drug addiction.
- It's weird that you can have someone who breaks their drug addiction, perhaps on their own, you know, just sheer force of will or whatever it might be.
- I mean, granted, you know, he when he shaved all the time, he was also battling a massive drug addiction.
- My partner is a psychologist and has convinced my entire family I am displaying all the hallmark signs of drug addiction.
- And if they put their efforts into that, you can severely, severely reduce the amount of drug addiction and overdoses that you have in the country.
- It's it's the loneliest journey to come back from a drug addiction because you won't be socialising with straight goers.
- She struggles with so much drug addiction, alcohol addiction.
- It also underpins some mechanisms of drug addiction, compulsive drug seeking for example.
- I want to ask you about using drugs to treat drug addiction.
- The sort of drug addiction is a brain disease model.
- So I meet met this Anthony T Santiago and we got friendly but eventually his drug addiction and his craziness.
- I personally think that you talk about the dark arts, the porn, drug addiction.
Examples
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Such genomic approaches will likely further our understanding, prevention, and treatment of human diseases, including drug addiction.
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His father died after years of substance abuse, and his mother suffered for many years from drug addiction.
Academic text (2017) -
We need to treat drug addiction as an addiction, as a health problem.
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Urine testing and collaboration with a drug addiction treatment program are critical in this regard.
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Thus far, ethnographic work on ways to prevent drug addiction has been limited.
Academic text (2009) -
Despite being loved by generations, she lived a difficult and often tormented life, struggling with emotional problems and drug addiction.
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Research on drug addiction reveals that drug treatment is rarely a one-time event.
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Jayne Mason is hospitalized at the Betty Ford Center for drug addiction.
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Her journey to overcome drug addiction has been long and filled with challenges.
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It's vital that our community provides access to treatment for those facing drug addiction.
Synonyms
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4.1
A strong harmful need to keep using a drug or activity even when you cannot stop
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7.2
A strong need to take drugs that is hard to stop
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3.7
Using drugs or alcohol too much so it harms your health
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2.8
Using illegal or harmful drugs too often so they harm a person's health and life
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6.0
A state of needing a drug or alcohol to feel normal
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5.5
A strong need to keep taking drugs or alcohol to feel normal
Antonyms
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Morphology
This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase: the head 'addiction' (a compulsive dependence) modified by 'drug' specifies the object of dependence, so the overall meaning 'addiction to drugs' is directly derivable from the parts. The modifier–head pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Drug addiction may come from the image of being 'held' by the drug and unable to break free, like a person tied to a heavy rope that keeps pulling them back to drugs. So, drug addiction means 'a condition where a person cannot stop using drugs even though it causes harm'.