The Discover experience can be addictive when each item leads to curious or exotic products.
As is the nature of gaming, "Government in Action" has been designed to be addictive.
While adrenaline boosts performance in the short-term, it can be addictive and have long-term consequences if overused.
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That means they are less likely to abuse it, and it is less likely to be addictive.
Dr Cottrell does not believe that thiopental has any long-term adverse affects, though Vincent Iacopino, acting director of research for Physicians for Human Rights, an American charity, cautions that it can be addictive.
When Mr Starr himself was defending tobacco companies some years ago, and signing briefs arguing that nicotine might not be addictive, he seemed to understand that the quest for truth must be balanced against the rights of defendants.
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Now that he has kicked the industry's habit of denying that there is anything the least bit unwholesome about smoking, Mr LeBow finds his motives impugned by the tobacco bosses who have continued for years to insist with straight faces at congressional hearings, against all the evidence, that they do not believe nicotine to be addictive.
Seeing this made me wonder if the behavior of smoking might be as addictive as the chemical gratification of lighting up.
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One concern cited by panelists was the fact that vegetable and fruit juice as a product would likely prove to be less addictive than coffee.
Learning would both be truly addictive and significantly more efficient.
I've talked before in this column about the capability of Facebook and other social media to threaten relationships: They provide a sense of instant gratification that stimulates our brain's reward centers, offering quick hits of novelty that can be downright addictive.
For any behaviour to be defined as addictive, there have to be specific consequences such as it becoming the most important activity in the person's life or being the way they improve their mood.
If social games are addictive now, how addictive would they be when that icon of your favorite game is always staring you in the face?
Prescription pain medications are potentially addictive but can also be an important component of pain management.
But if the attention proves addictive, the road may be hard.
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Hers has an addictive hot bacon dressing that would be delicious on just about anything.
While not addictive, "those pills can be counterproductive, since they make you jittery and decrease your concentration and ability to focus, " says Pak.
Watch yourself though, like the many who have been enslaved by Farmville, Civ is even MORE addictive, and presumably the Facebook version will be as well.
Young women who are satisfied with themselves do not ex-lax themselves thin, or consider an expensive and addictive carcinogenic habit an appropriate price to pay to be beautiful.
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Some scientists have suggested that it's possible to make a safer cigarette, or that nicotine levels could be reduced over a period of time, making tobacco less addictive.
Luckily, there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of interesting New Yorkers, making the site an addictive time-suck.
Which seems to be claiming that checking Twitter and Facebook is better, or perhaps more addictive, than sex, booze or even tobacco.
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They are social phenomena: addictive, fad-oriented and often short-lived, they can also be unequalled in size.
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