Treatment for obesity itself is not considered deductible even if many of those who are overweight equate being addicted to food in much the same way as drug addicts can be addicted to cocaine or heroine.
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Given that Jackson said in the past that he had been addicted to painkillers -- in 1993 in a video statement he said this happened after his scalp was burned in a Pepsi commercial taping -- his liver was likely not as healthy as a normal 50-year-old's liver, Parker said.
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The investment in treatment for people addicted to drugs has also helped many to rebuild their lives.
The poll finds that 61% of respondents said in fact they are addicted to the Internet, while the other 39% said they could quit if they wanted to.
Let me begin by revealing a personal secret: Between 1983 and 1994, I made a reputation writing books (including Searching for Bobby Fischer) and national magazine pieces about chess--indeed, I became lost in chess, blissfully addicted to writing about the personalities and intricacies of the royal game, much as many men become chess addicts.
We might check them obsessively, but we're no longer feverishly addicted to responding in real time.
About 20, 000 people are addicted to alcohol in Cornwall, according to figures released by the council.
" Now, he sins again as an 1800s-era Anglican priest addicted to gambling in "Oscar and Lucinda.
Some 2 million poor souls are addicted to drugs in Iran and a heroic team of NGOs and volunteers are working behind the scenes to help them.
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Duane Reade, so named because the first store was situated at the corner of Duane and Reade streets in New York, went public in 1998 and is still addicted to growth.
But in a paper published this month in the American Journal of Public Health, Denise Kandel of Columbia University and Richard Udry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show that subjecting daughters, at least, to nicotine in the womb may not actually encourage them to become addicted to smoking at all.
Asia, too, is addicted to American debt, in so far as this finances imports from Asia, which then invests some of the proceeds back in America.
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"Computers are such an integral part of our life that in a certain sense we're all addicted to the technology, " he says.
If that happens, hedge funds addicted to the credit market will be in deep trouble.
Mr Obama may favour McKinseyites in much the same way as his predecessor seemed addicted to hiring alumni of Goldman Sachs.
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Individuals who are addicted to drugs or alcohol require treatment in order to find long-term recovery, not the threat of punishment.
Addicted to Company was a massive hit in Casey's home country back in 2005, but it's only now getting the domestic release it deserves.
One possibility: Because the people who are addicted enough to the Internet to use in-flight WiFi are probably the same kind people who, given the right amount of boredom, could end up addicted to other fine technology products.
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In this age of technology, people have become too addicted to systems.
Juries also have been more sympathetic to smokers who claim they became addicted in the 1950s, before there were warning labels on cigarette packages.
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In Korea, more than three in 10 youths who carry mobile phones are said to be addicted.
Instead, the U.S. economy has become more addicted to free money than at any other time in our history.
Officials in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are to begin making people addicted to crack cocaine get treatment.
Degas was addicted to views, usually from behind, of women in oblivious, intimate actions, such as bathing, drying themselves, or combing their hair.
Singer Michael Jackson was probably addicted to the painkiller Demerol, a witness for the defence in the trial of his doctor, Conrad Murray, has said.
The U.S. is now more addicted to artificially produced low interest rates than at any other time in her history.
Two years ago a study by a university in Punjab suggested that as much as 70% of young Punjabi men were addicted to drugs or alcohol.
He's taking part in a Europe-wide research project to find out whether some of us are actually addicted to certain foods.
"My name is Bryony, and I am addicted to Game of Thrones, " wrote the Daily Telegraph's Bryony Gordon in a column last year.
In 1940 only Churchill stood between Hitler and conquest, something many historians, addicted as they are to the "impersonal forces" of human events, find hard to fathom.
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