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 idea that Americans are overspenders and undersavers and addicted to debt is all myth.
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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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.
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.
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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We might check them obsessively, but we're no longer feverishly addicted to responding in real time.
But you have become addicted to spending each month two thirds more than you earn.
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Life could get unpleasant for the biggest players addicted to robust growth (see box, p. 180).
About 20, 000 people are addicted to alcohol in Cornwall, according to figures released by the council.
But a lot of big brands are kind of addicted to television advertising and video.
Indeed, many of the teams developing these products now resemble small villages of game-addicted worker bees.
Why is it that some teens who try cigarettes get addicted rather quickly while others do not?
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And the longer an economy stays addicted to inflation, the harder the eventual debt deflation will become.
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