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Recovery is a long process. There can be four, five or more relapses before an addict gets clean. Parents get tired, disgusted and depressed. They lose faith in 'cures' and grow wary of treatments.

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People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

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People not only had economic issues, at that time we began to see an epidemic of drug and alcohol abuse. Drug and alcohol addiction made it difficult for many to hold jobs and keep the family together.

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Some people are impulsive, some people are not; some people think through their decisions while others don't, and sometimes this can become pathological. Impulsive behavior can be associated with all sorts of mental disorders like addiction or problem gambling. If it could be demonstrated that we could change the way people perceive risk and ambiguity by introducing a medication that could influence brain chemistry, someday we might be able to alleviate some types of pathological decision making.

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Our goal in smoking-related research is to detect those who are susceptible to nicotine, identify the best ways to prevent these persons from beginning to smoke and, if they do, determine how best to break the nicotine addiction that can result.

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Our addiction to oil is a matter of national security concern.

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I will not use my addiction as an excuse for what I've done. I take responsibility for my actions. I will never come back to this court again.

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That would make addiction more inheritable than diseases we commonly think of as genetic, such as adult onset diabetes or common hypertension.

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I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

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It isn't always a guy on the street carrying a bottle around in a brown paper bag. And, you don't have to be a full-fledged drug addict to get yourself into serious trouble.

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It is one form of harm reduction but to me it resigns everybody, including the addict, that since you have no hope of beating your addiction we'll just feed it in a controlled environment.

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It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore.

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I don't care what tobacco companies are saying, they're flat out lying. This stuff is addictive, and I still consider myself addicted. I haven't used it in better than 18 years, but I still love the smell of it and I consider myself an addict . . . once you're an addict, whether you stop using or not, you're always an addict.