TiVo's gadget allows a TV addict to digitally capture a show for later playback.
She told the court she regularly sold some of her methadone to another addict to make extra cash.
Between 1995 and 2000 every web entrepreneur spent like an addict to build market share in the hope of achieving salvation increasing returns!
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.
Dr Rowan Williams said Gordon Brown's plans to spend more in order to tackle the recession were like an "addict returning to the drug", and suggested the economy had been going in the wrong direction for decades.
It's like a recovering drug addict asking to work at a meth lab -- not a good combo.
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.
So Dyche had a window to go on stalking Tania, knowing she'd be at the stables alone, he hired two friends, one a crack addict, to go there to snatch back a watch he'd once given her.
Long before the government took it upon itself to ban opium from general sale, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a Romantic poet and drug addict, used to hire porters to bar his entry to apothecaries.
And Cantab Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge-based biotechnology firm, has almost finished safety trials with its anti-cocaine vaccine designed to stimulate an addict's own immune system to fight off the drug, just as it might a bacterial infection.
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 father was an alcoholic and a drug addict, and used to knock me about.
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.
He was a functional addict, who went to work each day, but I found him passed out on the floor or overmedicated frequently enough that the weekend staff at the ER knew us by name.
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And what happened is I got so involved into serving people and working in the community feeding programs that because these people knew I was a drug addict and they began to watch how my life began to change, people started having other hopes that their life can change also.
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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Over the next days and weeks negotiations will revolve around whether to give the addict more heroin.
Many have compared the phenomenon to a drug addict just looking for a fix, when in fact it does not really fix anything.
"It's analogous to a drug addict who's gone through rehab, but when he walks by that abandoned crack house he suddenly thinks about going in again, " Pelchat says.
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.
If I have a drug addict break into my house to steal my belonging and possibly hurt my family, then a weapon designed to kill people is what I want for my home defense firearm.
Holing up in a tech dead-zone sounds like nonsense to many an Internet addict.
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