addictions

Definition von addictions im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: plural of addiction
addiction: A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma
addiction: A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences
His addiction was to courses vain. Shakespeare.
addiction: {n} devotedness
Addiction: You wake up in the morning and immediately check your E-Mail While doing so, you swap messages with three people on ICQ You then spend a couple of hours in your favourite chatting room Then you write several E-Mails and quickly have some lunch Then back to the chatting room, before chatting with four people on ICQ and two on PowWow You have a quick dinner, back to the room, then go to bed, saying good morning and good night to everyone else in the house You are addicted to chatting
Addiction: Strong emotional and/or psychological dependence on a substance, such as alcohol or drugs, that has progressed beyond voluntary control
Addiction: a persistent, habitual, or compulsive physiological or at least psychological dependency on one or more psychoactive drugs
Addiction: Physical dependence on a habit-forming substance
Addiction: Psychological, emotional, or physical dependence on the effects of a drug
Addiction: A strong dependence on a drug
Addiction: Pattern of compulsive drug use characterized by a continued craving for an opioid and the need to use the opioid for effects other than pain relief
Addiction: an abnormally strong craving
Addiction: A brain disorder characterized by the loss of control of drug-taking behavior, despite adverse health, social, or legal consequences to continued drug use Addiction tends to be chronic and to be characterized by relapses during recovery
Addiction: Psychological or emotional dependence on the effects of a drug
Addiction: In its broad sense, persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful - Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition Choosing fantasy over reality - Fr Leo Booth A pathological relationship to a mood altering event, experience or thing that has life damaging consequences - John Bradshaw
Addiction: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Addiction: being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) Click here for more info on how to fight addictions
Addiction: Psychological or physiological dependence upon a drug
Addiction: The loss of control and compulsive use of mind-altering chemical(s) coupled with the inability to stop the use in spite of the fact that such use is causing problems within one’s life Addiction can be a physical and/or psychological dependence of a chemical substance
Addiction: The state of physical or psychological dependence on a substance that develops when that substance is used over a period of time
Addiction: Definition: Obsession or habitual behaviors Having an unhealthy dependence Compulsive physiological need for a habit-forming substance
Addiction: dependence on a substance (such as alcohol or other drugs) or an activity, to the point that stopping is very difficult and causes severe physical and mental reactions
Addiction: Anything you tell yourself you have to have before you can be happy details
Addiction: The abuse of any psychoactive substance with compulsion and loss of control despite adverse consequences
Addiction: The physical and psychological craving for a substance that develops into a dependency and continues even though it is causing the addicted person physical, psychological and social harm The disease of addiction is chronic and progressive, and the craving may apply to behaviors as well as substances
Addiction: A compulsive physiological need for a drug
Addiction: (psychological dependence) Pattern of compulsive drug use characterized by a continued craving for an opioid and the need to use the opioid for effects other than pain relief
Addiction: An illness in which a person seeks and consumes a substance, such as alcohol, tobacco or a drug, despite the fact that it causes harm
Addiction: A chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and use and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain
Addiction: psychological dependence on a drug See dependence
addiction: an abnormally strong craving being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
addiction: The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination
addiction: An addiction to something is a very strong desire or need for it. He needed money to feed his addiction to gambling
addiction: {i} devotion to a certain habit, dependency
addiction: (Roman law) a formal award by a court sentence of a thing or person to another (as of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"
addiction: Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them. She helped him fight his drug addiction. long-term addiction to nicotine
addiction: A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens ones life but when ceased causes trauma