Noun an inspiring story about addicts who seek help and manage to kick their habit science-fiction addicts who eagerly await each new installment in the series
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The character is an addict, running the drug game inside the prison, and there’s so much pain in the character. Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022 The first season, specifically, deals with their pairing, as well as Mae’s struggle with sobriety (like the IRL Martin, the character of Mae is a former drug addict), and hesitancy around coming out. Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 27 June 2022 She was cast as Rue Bennett, a 17-year-old recovering drug addict who serves as the show's narrator and main character, in 2019. Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 9 Aug. 2022 After the Melendez murder, Ms. Hustvedt, his stepmother, published a novel that featured a teenage addict who becomes involved in a killing strikingly similar to the real-life crime.New York Times, 27 July 2022 The higher ups at the Royals don’t see much good publicity in hiring the former inmate and recovering addict. Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 14 July 2022 That’s when a young drug addict overdosed on crystal meth and GHB in a Pasadena hotel room while partying with Dr. Carmen Puliafito, dean of USC’s Keck School of Medicine.Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022 One part of this the movie gets right is that Parker was gambling addict, often spending long periods in Hot Springs, Arkansas, or Palm Springs, California, to get his fix. Morayo Ogunbayo, ajc, 27 June 2022 The throughline is Adam Moskowitz, a recovering rapper, actor, addict and lost soul who found his life’s purpose in cheese.New York Times, 17 June 2022
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Public health groups have also raised concerns about e-cigarettes’ ability to addict users, particularly kids, to nicotine. Nicholas Florko And Elissa Welle, STAT, 27 Aug. 2022 King agrees, explaining that the ways in which her character Leslie, the conflicted mother to addict Rue (Zendaya) and efflorescent Gia (Storm Reid), has evolved. Marcus Jones, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2022 In another scandal that found its way to celluloid (1999's The Insider), Wigand appeared on 60 Minutes and said his firm, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson, had intentionally manipulated the level of nicotine in their cigarettes to addict smokers. Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2019 The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the U.S. tobacco market, has long aimed to crack down on menthol products, which disproportionately addict black people. Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2021 Big Tobacco conspired for years to addict teens and target minorities, even the executives knew of the deadly costs to smokers, those around them and society.Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021 Legislators passed the law last year, citing concerns that tobacco companies are using sweet flavors to addict youths. Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021 First, the platforms' business models — originally designed to manipulate and addict — are the very reason that disinformation goes viral in the first place. Sally Hubbard For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 28 Oct. 2020 Perpetual connectivity has led to a plethora of early social media apps that are designed to addict and distract us. Padmasree Warrior, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2020 See More
earlier, "to give over, surrender, apply or devote (oneself) habitually," borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcere "to assign (property), make over, hand over, surrender," from ad-ad- + dīcere "to speak, say" — more at diction