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Sentence Examples When an addict is in denial, he projects his anger onto everyone but himself, and especially upon anyone brave enough to tell him the truth. Mr Burgess was a known heroin addict in the town who had a string of criminal convictions. The 28-year-old heroin drug addict is banned from the city centre and from begging inside the outer ring road for five years. A 27-year-old heroin addict found himself in the grip of a police dog after going on a late-night thieving expedition. Now, being a former coke addict myself, I know what she is going through as well as he. Living with them is Nelson, Rabbit's son, at 42 a recovering coke addict and careworker recently estranged from his wife, Pru. Yes, I was a criminal, a drunk, a drug dealer, an addict and a menace to society. Now, I'm no degenerate drug addict or anything, but I do like to toke on the occasional stick now and again. Well to make a long story short she was killed by a drug addict who was tripping on acid. The gaunt actress looks more like a heroin addict than the blowzy drunk he had in mind. A heroin addict caught supplying drugs to police in an undercover investigation has been jailed for four years. The ganja addict who suffers from a mental breakdown, which is controlled by medication, if and only if the medication is taken. She had been a heroin addict but had now detoxified and wanted to go out and see her children. The former actor, a meth addict who’s been in and out of rehab, got gropey and was also removed from the reality show. She lived the typical chaotic lifestyle of a heroin addict and a convicted drug dealer had access to her flat. A heroin addict who ran a drugs den frequented by dealers at all hours of the day has been jailed for 18 months. Any scrapbook addict like myself would do well to keep all and paste them in the same scrapbook. Even the most diehard personal finance addict is likely to be bamboozled by this one. My friend, who is a self-confessed salad addict and doesn't eat meat, opted for the salad nicoise. A crack addict carrying a burglar and stolen goods in his car rammed a police vehicle during a desperate car chase. Show More Sentences She took laudanum for this, as was the fashion, a habit that brought her to the attention of a fellow poet, the opium addict Coleridge. They asked the police and Social Services to intervene because they feared the addict she was in love with was leading her astray. A reformed heroin addict turned property developer is hoping to film part of his life story in Swindon. The self-confessed drug addict admitted possessing heroin with intent, but claimed that he was only looking after it for another person. It's a perfect gift for that oldies radio addict in your life, not to mention a fantastic ice melter at your next boy-girl party. My best childhood friend is now a tik addict who has spent time in Pollsmoor for armed robbery. A heroin addict has spoken of the moment he used a heavy wooden lamp stand to beat two men to death as they slept in his flat. The doctor was concerned about this, because the friend was also a heroin addict and was using methadone for his own treatment. She was to buy a train ticket to Lanzhou, a polluted industrial metropolis in northern China with a large addict population. A drug addict who raided his mother's home after he shinned up the drainpipe is behind bars for 16 months. Pierre's true-life journey from debt-ridden drug addict to Booker Prize winner has been a stranger-than-fiction ride. One aggressive addict blackmailed him and threatened to harm his daughter, who was away at university. When an opium addict stops smoking opium, his vision becomes blurred and he cannot keep proper balance. Now, years later, he had rediscovered his past habit after the drug related death of his addict father. Or, as one parent put it, an addict is never cured of the drug habit, they are only in remission. A heroin and cocaine addict who preyed on elderly women to feed his drugs habit has been jailed for three years. He was a former heroin addict who had stolen the televisions to fund his drug habit and to feed and clothe his family. After refusing to leave the cell, one inmate, a cocaine and heroin addict serving seven years for violent robberies, headbutted the officer. His mother, a drug addict who had become a criminal to feed her habit, was doing a long stretch in prison. A former drug addict and reformed hellraiser, he's on the comeback trail with a sickly song that gradually starts to work its way up the charts. Show More Sentences I became methodical about the whole thing, much like a drug addict preparing for their next hit. Some tribes have incorporated culture and spirituality in the healing process in hopes that the addict can beat the highly addictive chemical. He's been a drug addict and a vagrant, and was once humiliatingly pursued by police over an unpaid cafe bill. And he suffers from withdrawal symptoms, like an addict does when on cold turkey, if he doesn't run for two straight days. She's a former heroin addict who, six months after she stopped injecting, is getting her life back together. His eyes took on the glazed expression of a drug addict contemplating his next fix. This man was a convicted drug addict who had falsified prescriptions to get his fixes. The road-building programme is like the heroin addict getting his last fix. A drug addict burglar tried to strangle a policewoman during an attempt to escape from Basingstoke police station. As for the state-run addict hotels, they quickly became as rife with filth and violence as any Vancouver flophouse. In his next play, After the Fall, he would caricature her as a daffy, needy addict. Heroin use alters the physiology of the brain and proteins that accumulate in the brain remain there even after an addict has detoxified. Earlier this year, Wiltshire Constabulary oversaw the exhumation of the body of a heroin addict. See, she's a heroin addict here, and tries real hard to look all doped up and dramatic. For every decent family there was a drug dealer, for every working person a hopeless drug addict. The chief architect behind the Government's downgrading of cannabis has a relative who is a drug addict, it was revealed yesterday. The youngster survived for weeks alone after the death of his mother, a recovering drug addict. It will be obvious to those who recognise my lifestyle that I am not a television addict. He has become a real Internet addict and in his spare time he loves surfing the net for news. I'm now a fully-fledged property addict and I enjoy the creative side of it, as well as the business side. Show More Sentences Ryedale table tennis addict Cliff Edens has just been honoured with a national award for his services to the game. On the train from Swansea to Carmarthen I sat next to a mobile phone addict. Well, if you are a fresh air addict, you might take a very dim view of that. She was a heroin addict and used amphetamines, but had started a methadone programme when she learned she was pregnant. How does legality and availability determine the likelihood of a casual user becoming an addict? The likelihood that one of them will commit a crime or become a drug addict is quite slim. Marijuana smoking, experts point out, can make a helpless addict of its victim within weeks, causing physical and moral ruin, and death. It treats all consumption of controlled substances, whether addictive or not, and whether by an addict or not, in the same manner. Some, like Sally, are far from the typical image of a drug addict that most of us have in our minds. The trial included a taped confession in which he said he was a drug addict and had hired mercenaries for the attack. Yet the very nature of addiction is that it denies an addict the freedom of choice, as he or she becomes a slave to the drug. Her mother is a drug addict who has locked her out on several occasions. During filming one day, Dunne and his crew entered a home with an addict mom. The idea of scaring people, telling them that if they use marijuana, they are going to become a crack cocaine addict does not work. I'm selling it on behalf of a drug addict who needs the money. The context was that of a drug addict who was receiving treatment. Well, he's a self-deluded coke addict who got away with murder. Last year, Jared Leto portrayed drug addict and HIV patient Rayon in the movie Dallas Buyers Club to critical acclaim. In short, why should a drug addict rob a convenience store for small change when he or she could score big cash by stealing someone's identity instead? If it turns out he is a gay, woman hating drug addict who really believes in the Scientology madness, well Cary Grant was pretty out there too and his work is still loved. Show More Sentences Thomas Gerbasi remembers the professional alcoholic, doper, addict, and five-time world-champion boxer. Huck Cheever is a gambling addict who has hocked his possessions and stolen from his friends, and is one step away from becoming a derelict. According to what may just be urban legend, Tupac was born in jail to a drug addict mother. One of the boys had been an heroin addict but he had got off it. Would you expect a heroin addict to come off heroin just like that? They discovered that those rats given a high-fat diet became hooked and displayed symptoms similar to those of a drug addict deprived of their fix if their fat was taken away. In fact, only once does he cut away to Dee Dee's quiet home life, where the recovering addict ribs his kitty about having to kick catnip cold turkey. Collins was a laudanum addict, yet he fulfilled his writing commitments on the nail. Within months she was a heroin addict, pregnant with their first child, and at his behest prostituting herself in Las Vegas to alcoholic gamblers to support both their habits. For any three tents or RVs, in one there'll be a homeless family, in another will be a drug addict and the third will be a drug supplier. With fewer receptors, the dopamine system is desensitized, and the now-understimulated addict needs more and more of the drug to feel anything at all. The Elvis impersonator and telly addict is back on the box tomorrow. Her mother is a drug addict and has been in and out of jail for over a decade, and Megan's insatiable craving for affection is both tragic and repellent. If the hippie happens to be a prog rock addict then it gets worse. Whether you are a junky or a functional addict, heroin runs your life. When you are an heroin addict the only thing that matters to you is where you are going to get your next hit from and you will do anything to get it. They showed a drug addict from Saskatoon who said he was part of NORML, the group advocating normalizing marijuana use. Michelle, a self confessed Yorkshire Tea addict has lived in Brussels for 5 years, and has 20 years experience in the service industry. It is extremely hard, if not impossible, for an unskilled addict to find someone willing to give him a job. This system, had it only been more widely available when I was an addict from 2001 to 2003, would have saved me. Show More Sentences She gave interviews with her husband then, but in later years is only referred to as a reclusive television addict who refuses to go out or meet people. An addict could be prescribed Dilaudid with out the stigma and resonance that a drug like heroin carries with it. To be an addict, by definition, is to habituate to something compulsively or obsessively. Only after his release, he was shown a video of himself admitting to be a drug addict and to have participated in the plot against the President. This track mixes to perfection acid samples and house sounds with the voice of Beth Ditto, which will easily addict you with these catchy lyrics. White's bizarre life as taxi driver, male model, Jesus freak and teen drug addict feed into his second album. We are making progress in the constitutional process of criminalizing consumption, taking care not to confuse the sick addict with the criminal distributor. All the cast are excellent with Richard Jones, as recovering addict Mark, and James Proctor, as the teenage rent boy, particularly moving. Legal action brought against a plastic surgeon by a patient who alleged becoming a drug addict as a result of major physical damages suffered when a prothesis was fitted into the thorax. A JUDGE told a cannabis addict who complained he couldn't get help to try self control. A DRUG addict caught trying to smuggle narcotics into prison, Sellotaped into his underpants, has gone from visitor to inmate. The drug addict was slammed for smoking cigarettes and a bong while pregnant, and some viewers even asked why the film makers didn't intervene to stop her harming her unborn baby. After his divorce from Sally, Clark entered into a relationship with heroin addict Norma Fleet, whom he married in Wi Tako Prison. The common thread is always a child in distress, but we have to adapt our approach each time as we detect, for example, psychomotor troubles in a child whose mother is a very heavy smoker or a drug addict? A former heroin addict was debagged and stabbed to the head after he found two unwelcome visitors in his home, Teesside Crown Court heard. He died because he was an addict on a day of the week with a y in it. But as any addict will tell you, every single day is a fight for sobriety. A HEROIN addict used a knife to steal aftershave from a town centre store in a desperate bid to secure his next fix, a court heard. In fact, the reality is shakiness, nausea, vomiting, insomnia, and muscle and bone aches are just a few of the barriers standing between an addict and recovery. According to one officer, a desperate addict would use any available weapon, from BB guns to replicas to sawed-off shotguns, to commit the crimes necessary to feed a habit. Show More Sentences And if human immune systems react in the same way to the new vaccines as murine ones do, the day when a drug addict might be offered vaccination rather than opprobrium will have come a little closer. Drug addict Matthew Speight walked straight to the counter of the 24 Hour Shop on Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough. A GREEN-FINGERED drug addict grew nearly pounds 13,000 worth of cannabis in his sister's flat in a matter of weeks, a court has heard. I understand that name calling enables an addict to continue to live in denial rather than confront and accept the health consequences of tobacco use. This approach changes the client's environment to make abstinence more rewarding than substance use, along with establishing a range of interventions to help the addict gain control of their addiction. While the gambling addict metaphor makes for catchy headlines and memorable sound bites, it is an inaccurate depiction because governments are not, in fact, gambling. It was the arrest of a drug addict by two Tessino police officers which led to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights of 7 February 2006 in the Scavuzzo-Hager and others v. Switzerland case. As a solitaire addict and user of many solitaire applications, this is the best I've tried and bought. The graphics are great and as is the ease of use. The organization offers a multitude of services tailored to the needs of its resident adults, teens, addict mothers with young children, pregnant addicts and mentally ill chemical abusers. Though professing to be a Neoplatonist and a sun worshipper, Julian himself was an addict of superstition rather than religion, according to Ammianus. In my young years I became a heavy cigarette smoker, a true addict. The standard method of dealing with an addict was to arrest him, throw him into a cell, and leave him until the agonizing pangs of withdrawal were over. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. It was claimed Laffer wore a false beard and was trying to steal painkillers for his addict wife Melinda Brady, 29, who has been charged with robbery. Linked to a string of famous women including Sadie Frost, ex-heroin addict Russell, 30, is a self-confessed teetotal sexaholic with a growing cult following. It's a crime which has ties with the team's original investigation from the turn of the millennium, when Witten was accused of killing 18-year-old drug addict Darcy Blaine. Clark was ruthless as controller of his operations and killed a number of associates including Gregory Ollard, a Mr Asia drug supplier and heroin addict. A former heroin and crack addict, he has been off drugs and in the community for five years. I don't consider myself a caffeine addict, but I do drink diet Coke every evening and probably a weak coffee every day or two on average. Maybe you're a chocolate addict, ever ready to spend your petty cash on another bar of Snickers. Show More Sentences If you are a real caffeine addict, then have the breakfast juice from day two each morning. The individual who is initially a voluntary user can become a compulsive drug user, an addict. The family wanted Daniel out of the house and even told the hospital he was a drug addict. Ron is perhaps a war addict, but not an adrenalin junkie addicted to the rush of battlefield. It is where the former snooker superstar, cocaine addict, failed car salesman and landscape gardener, now whiles away his hours. So they wouldn't let my grandma home from hospital because they knew I was living with her and I was a drug addict. I don't care if he was a drug addict, an alcoholic, a woman-hater or womaniser or both. Students from the early nineties look into his eyes and see a heroin addict. It was the most boring period of my life and I have become a telly addict. He was raised by hippies and accompanied his father, a heroin addict, to aa meetings. James seemed to go directly from being a weekend warrior to an addict. This week, Lawrence films a guest stint on californication as a former teen idol turned movie star turned drug addict. Judging from the list, it seems like German chancellor Angela Merkel is a bonafide Adidas addict. Because they agree that Ty Burrell looks like Jon Hamm if Jon Hamm were a crack addict? You can feel compassion for the victim of discrimination or the victim of Typhoon Haiyan or for a drug addict. I have to admit when I watched the documentary on Joan that I thought you were a bit manic yourself or even a drug addict. For a while I functioned pretty well as an alcoholic and drug addict. Was it any surprise that Boogard was on his way to becoming a drug addict? Above all else, it is clear that ISIS is an adrenaline addict. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. Show More Sentences One thing I'd sum up is that they had me drinking that sizzurp, but I was really sick with bronchitis. I don't want people to think that I was a drug addict. A true addict, by definition, is a person whose body and brain are incapable of functioning like normalwise without a particular outside substance. Examples from Classical Literature He decided he could become a mangosteen addict in no time and started back to buy a bagful. From their infancy they addict themselves to exercises best calculated to increase the strength and suppleness of their limbs. He decided that she must be an addict of some drug, perhaps like the black lotus of Xuthal. Everything is blocked out except the fleeting perception of ecstasy, in the same way as a cocaine addict is euphoric after a hit. Drug addict Derek Hutchins, 28, was told by a sheriff he would only be banned from keeping dogs for 70 weeks. Drug addict Christopher Darby, 34, lived in the same block of flats as the OAP and used to visit him in his home. Mark Dempster was an addict himself before he kicked drink and drugs 28 years ago. Having this in view, one must addict one's self to speaking the truth. Earlier last month 42-year old heroin addict Paul Bustard was jailed after admitting a charge of manslaughter. A THIRD drug addict has died after injecting heroin tainted with anthrax. A former teen drug addict will be recruited into the UAE's national service amid fears she might fall back into her old ways if returned to her family. At Friday's ceremony, Lander thanked the support team who helped him along the way and also recalled his former life as a heroin addict and bank robber. Rick found himself surveying a collection of tools for the do-it-yourself addict. He had known it, but, like a drug addict, he had refused to admit it. He was a gambler and this talk was like the taste of drugs to an addict. He became a professional gambler, and almost became a drug addict. During his short life he had suffered many hardships, been a drug addict, recovered, contracted Aids and lived life in such a way that many remember him with pride. The conjectures awakened by even a momentary consideration of the possibilities involved became at once as wildly bizarre as the insane imagings of a drug addict. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of addict? Words that rhyme with addict What is the past tense of addict? What is the plural of addict? What is the adverb for addict? What is the adjective for addict? What is the noun for addict? Translations for addict Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words add fuel to the fire adders Adderall adder addendums addendum addicted addicted to addicting addiction addictions addictive 6-letter Words Starting With a ad add addi addic