Synonyms for drug addiction
drug addic·tion

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1. drug addiction, white plaguenoun

   an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)

   Synonyms:
   wasting disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, white plague, consumption

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1. • Addiction
   • Narcotic

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1. drug addiction

   Read the full text of the Drug Addiction poem by Sheila King on the Poetry.com website.

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1. The Hong Kong actor:

   Don't ever think you won't get addicted, because not only are you hurting yourself ... your one drug addiction will hurt your family, in order to earn money, you'll steal, you'll rob. In the end, you're hurting your country, you're hurting your family, you're hurting your son ... it's a domino effect.

2. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   New Day, drug addiction is a disease. And it's a failing to try drugs in the first place.

3. Carly Fiorina:

   If we continue to criminalize drug addiction, we're not treating it. And the system we have today is part of the problem now, not part of the solution, we now have the highest incarceration rates in the world. And the majority of people we have in prison are people like my daughter, Lori, struggling with addiction.

4. Kate Delaney:

   And Kate Delaney, sports commentator and author strongly credits drugs and steroids for the loss of wrestlers through the years. Sadly its steroids fueled with alcohol addiction and sometimes completing the trifecta of abuse – drugs, chyna had a drug addiction many others do and Marc Siegel couple that with steroid abuse it's a lethal cocktail.

5. Lakeisha Holloway:

   Boy, have I come a long ways, i was a scared little girl who knew that there was more to life outside of crime, drug addiction, lower income, alcoholism, being under educated -- all of which I grew up being familiar with.