addicted

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Dr. Nicole Avena, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai Medical School and a visiting professor of health psychology at Princeton University, wrote the book “Why Diets Fail: Because You’re Addicted to Sugar.”

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2022

Now, at the suggestion of Hopelessly Addicted to Loserdom Duncan Stevens, we present the sequel.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

Addicted to books and proudly without a cellphone, my father is turning 75 next week.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2020

Your Kids Think You’re Addicted to Your Phone Parents say they are using their phones too much, but their kids don’t feel addicted, according to a new study.

From The Verge • Jun. 4, 2019

Addicted to dissent, and enamoured of polemics, he entered those forbidden fields of inquiry and controversy to which the Reform invited him.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Parkman, Francis