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Example sentences for: addiction

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I did not think a book could be any worse than High Crimes . Then I encountered Jerome Levin's--whoops, I mean, Dr. Jerome Levin's-- The Clinton Syndrome . Psychotherapist Levin's ostensible purpose is to use Clinton's problems to bring attention to sex addiction.
Addiction 1993;88:791-804.
Tens of millions of humans, as we know, willingly partake of marijuana, and these differences between rat and human behavior should discourage us from using two rat studies to assert that a) marijuana is addictive in the same way as harder drugs are and b) marijuana primes humans for addiction to harder drugs.
Your problem will not be hesitancy about kissing but addiction to it."
But let's get clinical: Does the diagnosis of sex addiction make sense?