TiVo's gadget allows a TV addict to digitally capture a show for later playback.
Combined with the insider influence of defense industry lobbyists, it means that the U.S. economy has become hooked like an addict to an ongoing fiscal stimulus from military expenditures.
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Before this meeting, a professional interventionist typically meets with family members or friends of the addict to get a history of what's happened, said Dr. Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer at Hazelden Foundation.
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And we are not even addressing, not mentioning at all, the most important aspect of Recovery from all addictions, that of quality Sobriety, a Sobriety having absolutely nothing to do with chemicals, food, sex, perfectionism, work, gambling, shopping or any other compulsive behavior utilized by an addict to change their always painful emotional state.
The warrants, signed by District Judge Timothy Williams and given to CNN by Las Vegas affiliate KTNV, say that "there is probable cause to believe" that the searches would uncover evidence at Murray's home and office of excessive prescribing, prescribing to an addict, prescribing to or treating an addict and manslaughter.
The way you confront an addict is to take away his support--all the beams and scaffolding that hide his lies.
No physical evidence linked Ranta, an unemployed drug addict, to the crime and the diamond courier testified he didn't recognize Ranta as the bandit who tried to rob him.
The first step, like any addict, is to admit you have a problem and frankly, no one can solve it for you.
And, says Mr Staunton, Clapton's experiences as a heroin addict led him to create the Crossroads Centre, a rehab unit in Antigua which opened in 1993.
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I'll cop to being a PC addict, and yes, I have been known to pick up a mobile phone.
My previously slow computer was like an espresso addict after a trip to Starbucks.
The corollary to the addict's anger is the enabler's extreme fear -- fear of what the enraged addict might do if left unaddressed.
On Thursday, writer Stephen Smith confirmed that he was seeking Hollywood star Johnny Depp to play him in an autobiographical film Addict, part of which is also due to be filmed in Wrexham.
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According to A.A. oral tradition and literature, if you go to enough meetings, you will eventually hear your own story told, enabling the addict or alcoholic in need of recovery to identify and seek assistance within the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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If you're worried about your professional reputation if you "come out" as an addict, you might want to consider sending a group email to a dozen or so people you trust.
Holing up in a tech dead-zone sounds like nonsense to many an Internet addict.
His story is told in flashbacks as he recounts his tale of woe to a beautiful recovering addict.
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Like an addict, the first step is to admit you are addicted to the nuance, suggestion and inference surrounding all the reasons why the markets are reacting as they are right now.
The story, which takes place in Memphis, Tennessee, concerns the transformation of Michael Oher, a black teen-ager whose mother was a crack addict, from a street kid to an All-American college football player, thanks to the intervention of the wealthy white Tuohy family.
Beforehand, the professional interventionist will try to prepare for the possibility that the addict will run away and, along with the family, create specific consequences if the person does not agree to go into treatment, Seppala said.
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But a lucrative day job leaves DefCon's hackers to focus on what Dead Addict says is the original sense of hacking.
Joining us to help explain what's going on is Dahlia Lithwick, legal analyst for the online magazine Slate and for DAY TO DAY, and a CrackBerry addict, I understand.
Ally read novels, wrapped up in her duvet beside the central-heating radiator in her bedroom, borrowing them from the center and the public library, sometimes finishing one and starting another without even changing her position or getting up to make coffee, like an addict.
That is, until a data-addict mate of mine, Frank, encouraged me to take another look.
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Long-term is the one and only Rehabilitation model capable of healing the typical chemical addict, one far enough along in the disease to have been referred to any level of treatment.
Yes, Amy Jellicoe is a laudable corporate whistle-blower, but the only person in her life still willing to speak to her as the final episode of Enlightened drew to a close was her troubled, former addict ex-husband.
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To understand the manipulation and endless need of an addict, Ms. Bennett visited rehab centers and interviewed friends who had struggled with alcohol.
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You throw in his successful side-careers as editor at Wiley, a university fundraising expert, blogger, recovering and proud ex-addict, tattoo enthusiast, public speaker, and I start to see a pattern: communicating ideas to people using whatever tools are available, i.e. storytelling.
After being "completely burned" when someone casually tweeted about a surprising celebrity cameo in the "Muppets" movie he had yet to see, Daniel Malen, who blogs as the TV Addict, recently drafted some guidelines for Twitter-specific etiquette.
He then put it to work classifying 14 perfumes, including Chanel No 19, Dior's Addict and Kenzo's Jungle Tigre.
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