The Dallas and Houston metropolitan areas are among the most oil-addicted with annual per capita oil consumption of 368 gallons and 323 gallons, respectively.
The really interesting questions include not just what nicotine (80% of those who try it will become addicted) shares with gambling (where, according to a 2006 survey of gambling in Oregon only 1.0% who gamble might have a problem with excessive gambling), but what makes them such different experiences with such different potentials.
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If we are serious about reducing substance abuse, crime and recidivism, and saving taxpayers money, then we must accept that our criminal-justice system is filled with seriously addicted people who need treatment to change their behavior.
In the classic tradition of never knowing when too much was just that, the Maserati brothers always had a slight problem with racing: They were addicted to it.
They gave us an insight to the heavier side of the Bury music scene, with two guitarists and a drummer addicted to his double-bass drum pedals.
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He noted that 4% to 6% of children become addicted to gambling, and that it has been linked with other high-risk behaviors, including drug use.
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Giving them a place to stay isn't dealing with the kind of underlying issue, which is there's a very small number of people who are addicted to drugs, are mentally ill, have severe problems with alcohol, and they live on the streets and every winter they fall down drunk four times and get taken to the hospital and have to get a cat scan.
Indeed, not long ago frustrated voters largely fired a Republican establishment so addicted to power that it had forgotten why voters put it there to begin with.
People with lower levels of brain dopamine are not as likely to become addicted, but they may be more likely to develop Parkinson's disease - which results from drastic reductions in dopamine in the brain.
Already, some 4% to 6% of young people are hooked into addicted or problematic gambling, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association, and with no way to keep them out of virtual casinos, those rates would surely grow.
In the 18thcentury they started trading with Caracas, the source of chocolate at a time when people were getting addicted to it.
Away from the bank, he was even taking extra bets with his own money, leading the prosecution to accuse him of being "addicted to gambling".
Indian politicians are addicted to a tax-and-subsidy regime of bewildering complexity, and deterred from tampering with it by a crowded electoral timetable.
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Becoming addicted to playing a game is seen as something that is comes from personality and individual proclivities interacting with the game, rather than inherent to the game itself.
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Communities of graying gamers have sprouted up world-wide as generations reared on Pong and Pac-Man have become addicted to the latest iterations of Halo and Call of Duty, but are no longer as fast with their trigger fingers.
These high-risk teens were also 27 percent more likely to become addicted to nicotine and 22 percent more likely to fail quit-smoking attempts as adults, when compared to teens with lower scores.
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