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. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   Drug addiction is a disease. And it's a failing to try drugs in the first place.

2. Melania Trump:

   Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America, we are going to end it or we are going to at least make an extremely big dent in this terrible, terrible problem.

3. Ron Wyden of Oregon:

   A parent’s drug addiction is becoming a growing reason for removing children from their homes and placing them in foster care.

4. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   The war on drugs has been a failure, hasn't worked, and we have to take a different approach to it, i believe treating drug addiction as a disease -- which is what it is -- needs to be done in this country and it needs to be done on a national level.

5. Wednesday Trump:

   Whether it is education, drug addiction, hunger, online safety or bullying, poverty or disease, it is too often children who are hit first, and hardest, across the globe, each of us hails from a country with its own unique challenges, but I know in my heart we are united by our commitment to raising the next generation to be happy, healthy and morally responsible adults.