By stating they are an addict they clearly communicate the abject suffering and out-of-controlness of the experience.
Burns describes herself as the daughter of an addict who was once hit by a drunk driver.
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Howard Levine runs a pharmacy on Long Island that was twice robbed by an addict desperate for painkillers.
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Sanjay Kumar, a former addict, said he quit after an addict friend died.
Fitzgerald believes that standard inpatient treatment for a set period of time, or until an addict is "cured, " is ineffective.
The way you confront an addict is to take away his support--all the beams and scaffolding that hide his lies.
For example, if the person is married, an addict's spouse may not permit him or her back into the home, Seppala said.
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Sheen showed up for work and did his job, which makes diagnosing him an addict in a strict clinical sense an iffy proposition.
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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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The superstar was repeatedly called an addict by lawyers on both sides of the lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against concert giant AEG Live.
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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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.
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.
For Ludacris fans, this move into the tech world shouldn't be surprising: He's a gadget-head, a fan of the iPad and an addict of the "Words with Friends" app on the iPhone 4.
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.
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.
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.
Holing up in a tech dead-zone sounds like nonsense to many an Internet addict.
My previously slow computer was like an espresso addict after a trip to Starbucks.
Sports cardiologist James O'Keefe, an author of the Heart paper, counters that Dr. Thompson is an exercise addict.
"I've had people who found my name on the Internet, and come in saying 'Hey doc, I'm an Internet addict, ' " he says.
Easier said than done for an urgency addict.
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Two men being held in other cases gave them the name of an unemployed drug addict named David Ranta, who was eventually tracked down by Scarcella.
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.
Dr. Drew Pinsky would diagnose him as an info-addict.
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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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As an op ed by Baltimore Sun columnist Susan Reimer points out, Petraeus was not an alcoholic or a drug addict, and he did nothing unethical or illegal in his official capacity as CIA director.
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.
Shortly after the killer's suicide in December, Anchorage police Detective Monique Doll described Keyes as a murder addict, saying police interviews with him showed he got "an immense amount of enjoyment" from killing.
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