Voluntary drug rehab rarely works, as newspaper headlines about addicted celebrities frequently remind us.
Like recovering junkies, some hopelessly addicted collectors have no choice but to swear off their habits forever.
When his grandmother passed away, he started getting migraines and became addicted to prescription painkillers.
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Patients are then placed into one of three categories: seriously addicted, potentially addicted or normal.
The IMF remains addicted to currency devaluation, which invariably retards economic recovery and growth.
The government, although trying to solve some of these problems, appears addicted to public enterprise.
And I did it all well spending my entire senior addicted to prescription painkillers.
The idea that Americans are overspenders and undersavers and addicted to debt is all myth.
James Holmes, who slaughtered 12 in the Colorado theater tragedy, was addicted to them also.
In a cricket-addicted nation, Dhoni was taking his first cricketing steps at a late stage.
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By the time I graduated from third grade I was already addicted to history.
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The schism comes at a bad time for the still-fragile (and still-oil-addicted) global economy.
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In 2011, his younger son, Brian, long addicted and depressed over his brother's death, committed suicide.
The Guardian reports that 60% of British youths acknowledge being highly addicted to their smartphones.
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The survey found 64% of women said they were addicted, versus 55% for men.
It is caused by an earmark-addicted Congress and enabled by a poll-driven president.
Roth, 57, is an engineer who owns four high-performance cars because he is addicted to speed.
In terms of football autobiographies, Fallen Idle has a brutal honesty reminiscent of Tony Adams' Addicted.
The heroes, Sidney (Wesley Snipes) and Billy (Woody Harrelson), are addicted to the game.
If you're part of the elite, Twitter-addicted 8%, we'll await your responses on Twitter.
It's much easier to believe--and probably true--that they screwed up, as an addicted gambler might.
The government, which was fighting wars abroad, became as addicted to the revenue from gin taxes.
The living, biorigged buildings which, like the Hosts, have become addicted to the missing EzRa.
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If that happens, hedge funds addicted to the credit market will be in deep trouble.
The Center has learned, moreover, that he is addicted to the drugs that stabilize his condition.
She said Shipman had caused "unimaginable distress and grief" and suggested he was addicted to murder.
Unfortunately for Mr Bildt, most Swedes are euro-sceptical, neutrality-loving and addicted to job security.
"Do not expect an addicted loved one to simply stop within their own right, " Hart said.
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There was a night-and-day difference in the response people showed up, thought it was fun, got addicted.
We might check them obsessively, but we're no longer feverishly addicted to responding in real time.
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