9 sentences with 'addiction'
Example sentences and phrases with the word addiction and other words derived from it.
• « Four centuries later, the formidable collective addiction to tobacco, alcohol and a multitude of stimulants or sedatives that pose a high risk to human health and life is evident all over the world. »
• « In 1968, the Social Court of the then Federal Republic of Germany officially recognised alcohol addiction as a disease. Among Germans in particular, the proportion of women who could technically be classified as alcoholics rose from a tenth of the population during the Second World War to a quarter to a third of the total at the beginning of the 1990s, due to crises of loneliness or lowered self-esteem. »
• « Tobacco addiction is mainly due to nicotine, an alkaloid which, by acting on the central nervous system - with certain pleasurable effects - would create even more dependence than heroin. »
• « There are those who want to quit for the sake of their loved ones or themselves, but the addiction defeats them. Others claim to enjoy their cigarettes and don't want to give them up. »
• « With a drug against drug addiction, the battle is being waged to recover countless people from the dreaded scourge. »
• « This will make it possible to fight drug addiction using a method similar to the one that causes it: other drugs. »
• « And from this addiction to electronic thinking not even the most backward and forgotten humans escape. The rifle that an Eskimo in the far north of Canada buys, a simple weapon that will allow him to do such basic things as hunt, eat and survive another winter, has been designed, manufactured and marketed with the help of computers. Without their intervention, the weapon would be far more expensive. »