addict

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The show's formula plays out with unflinching footage of the addict's shockingly self-destructive habits and loved ones describing their feelings of helplessness, before an "intervention specialist" moderates the tense meeting where the addict is always given an ultimatum: agree to enter treatment today, or else (and here the relatives pledge immediate consequences).

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  1. transitive verb To cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance: The thief was addicted to cocaine.
  2. transitive verb To occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively: The child was addicted to video games.
  3. noun One who is addicted, as to narcotics or a compulsive activity.
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  • The poor girl was a drug-addict, and I had to consider whether her husband was in any way responsible for her state. —  Ladies' Bane - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 22
  • To make the addict ready for detox treatment, the addict will be advised to stay completely away from the addictive substance. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Anyone who has known an addict - or loved one, or been related to one, or been one - knows this: Next to being an addict, an addict is one other thing - manipulative. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • If you're a quicksilver addict, then I highly doubt you'll end up trying this for more than a minute or two. —  TheNextWeb.com
  • I'm a one-cup a day maximum kinda addict, and that one cup had best be superb. —  Mother City Living
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  1. Latin addīcere, addict-, to sentence : ad-, ad- + dīcere, to adjudge; see deik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin addictus, past participle of addicere, devote, deliver over, properly give one's assent to, from ad, to, + dicere, say, declare.
  2. from Latin addictus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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