Addict Sentence Examples

The kidnapper was the child's mother, a drug addict, who no longer had custody and tried to spirit her daughter away.

The addict arrives through the front door not a window.

If you're a designer addict, you're in luck.

He had been a follower of Confucius and an opium addict and his wife had demonic problems.

I have also seen young lives and brilliant minds ruined by the addict's need for more narcotics.

Holmes was a drug addict; he was therefore slightly unbalanced in some respects.

Drug detox is something that every addict will need to go through.

Some successful meetings may result in the addict seeking help and treatment immediately after the session.

Stern and the two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich are also being brought up on charges of administering illegally prescribed medications to an addict.

I love reading and writing, watching movies and, to my shame, I am a hopeless telly addict, especially soaps!

At the appointed time, the group confronts the addict with their viewpoints as the session enfolds.

You can find a former heroin addict all over the world.

The addict lost friends to the drug by death, but it wasn't enough to convince her to quit.

I will be talking about the introduction of Ibogaine in the addict self-help scene in Holland.

Others may result in some positive action on the part of the addict that occurs a day or two after.

There are also cases where the session does not result in immediate major changes in the addict's life, though some sort of a positive outcome is seen.

However, a person is not an addict until he/she experiences a lack of control over his/her behavior.

In-patient treatment involves keeping an addict at a facility for anywhere from 24 hours to several months.

Use of medications depends on the circumstances of each recovering addict.

Drug detox also prepares an addict for further treatment.

The user acquires a chemical dependency on the drug; in the addict using the drug to aid withdrawal, symptoms can be worse as a result.

Set up a location where you can easily get the addict to meet you.

Once the addict sits down, the counselor or mediator will explain the reason for the meeting.

The loved one who is the most important person in the addict's life should go first.

This loved one is usually the most influential to the person so there is a stronger likelihood the addict will listen and agree to treatment.

Read several stories about a former heroin addict's experiences and learn how each person found freedom from one of the most addictive drugs on the streets today.

The addict tried rehabilitation centers, Narcotics Anonymous and a methadone program twice, but it didn't help.

The addict continued to use 12 times a day and prayed with every injection.

Faith in God is what prompted this addict's recovery from heroin addiction.

It will be difficult, but with perseverance and by taking recovery one day at a time, anyone can become a former heroin addict.

If the addict doesn't continue taking the drug regularly, he or she will begin experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

After the initial feelings of euphoria have subsided, the addict feels relaxed and drowsy, and this may be a welcome alternative to the stresses in his or her life.

Even though the average age of a meth addict is in the 30's, there is proof that some children begin experimenting with meth as young as middle school age.

You should provide reasons that will help convince the addict that he or she cannot wait any longer to seek treatment.

Help for both the addict and the victim is essential.

However, before committing to any drug treatment program, an addict should make his/her best effort to find out if the approach is what will work for him/her.

The addict gradually steps down his/her drug use at home, with the help of his/her support person.

The classes show family members what they can and cannot do to help the addict and themselves.

No treatment program can be effective unless the addict is clean and sober, with no alcohol left in his/her system.

Beta-blocking medications can be used to relieve the shaking or tremors an addict has during withdrawal.

By not properly completing detox, an addict may not have a successful treatment.

Drug detox is the first step in becoming a recovered addict.

Usually monitored or supervised by medical professionals or licensed counselors, detox is a compassionate way for the addict to rid his/her body of drugs.

While an addict is under anesthesia, medications are administered to help cleanse drugs from the person's system.

People with certain personality traits may be at an increased risk of developing a drug addiction, but drug abuse can also have its own effect on the addict's personality.

As with any drug or alcohol addiction, the success of withdrawal therapy depends on the severity of the addiction and the degree to which the addict is willing to comply with a treatment plan.

For people who are addicted, it is often difficult for them to accept that they are an addict in the same way as someone addicted to heroin or cocaine.

The meeting should include important people in the addict's life and a counselor or mediator (someone unrelated to the person).

It's best if you can have transportation available for the addict to go straight to the drug or alcohol program location.

Each loved one should think of one way he or she has helped the addict buy drugs and alcohol such as providing free housing, lending money or ignoring inappropriate behavior.

During the session, you will give him or her an ultimatum; if the addict refuses to receive treatment, he or she will no longer receive the things that enable his or her drug/alcohol use.

While there are risks in performing an intervention with a loved one, at some point you have to ask yourself if you're willing to continue watching the addict's downfall.

Addict Help has a local and national database of drug treatment centers.

In this case, the addict will have many costs beyond financial hardships, including ruined relationships, health problems and anxiety.

It's important to not only choose a reputable company, but also one that caters to the needs of the addict.

To get the attention of the addict, there should be some serious consequences for refusing to participate in treatment.

It's important for the addict to genuinely come to the realization that he or she needs help.

However, the addict will also need the support of family and friends.

The counselor can help you plan how to respond to the addict as well as set firm consequences for the addict if he or she refuses to get treatment.

Close friends and family can often become frustrated and distant even though the addict desperately needs their help.

Withdrawal should always be supervised by a qualified physician, and medications may be prescribed to help the addict cope during the detox stage.

This is the point in the process where the addict is no longer using the drug, and the symptoms she experiences can be mild, moderate or severe enough to require hospitalization.

For the first 12 weeks of the process, the addict sees the therapist for two, 60-minute therapy sessions.

The addict may contact the therapist in between sessions, if necessary.

During weeks 13-24, the addict must provide a urine sample twice a week (Mon-Thurs).

Part of the process involves having the addict identify her pattern of drug use and learn how to discontinue using cocaine.

The addict may also learn assertiveness or relaxation techniques as part of this process to help her maintain her sobriety.

It can be incredibly difficult to change the people, environment and circumstances around what causes an addict to use.

The client must first recognize and admit that she is an addict.

From that point, the addict is encouraged to get support from several people who are able to encourage her sobriety.

The addict's support network can include friends and family members (drug-free or recovering), the individual's sponsor, and the drug addiction counselor and other treatment staff.

For this reason, the addict should continue to follow up with her physician even if she is also receiving help from a qualified therapist.

This result is different from many other drug programs that might take months to help an addict.

Ideally, this treatment approach will give the addict the tools to cope with her particular situation.

Bear in mind that the withdrawal process is never easy, and an addict may experience serious physical and mental side effects that may even become life threatening.

Any addiction withdrawal and treatment program should be overseen by a qualified physican who can monitor the addict's physical condition throughout the process because withdrawal symptoms can become life threatening.

The recovering addict should continue to follow up with her physician to help avoid or treat relapses.

A regular exercise program also adds structure to the recovering addict's day.

The specific type of exercise that an addict could engage in will depend on his or her preferences and physical limitations.

Taking the extra time means you are more likely to persuade the addict to go into treatment.

Are all or most of the people who provide the alcoholic or addict with logistical or emotional support convinced the intervention is needed at this time?

Are the people involved prepared to accept that their relationship with the addict or alcoholic may change post-intervention, even if the intervention is successful?

That way the the addict or alcoholic can go directly jnto treatment if he agrees to do so.

Any details left unaddressed will provide a convenient excuse for the alcoholic and addict, especially if he feels ambivalent about seeking help.

The plans that are made will be influenced by the level of chaos that surrounds the alcoholic or addict's life.

If the alcoholic or addict has still been able to maintain a home, he might negotiate to go home and pack his own personal items.

One of the most important intervention tips at this point is that the addict must be accompanied by a member of the intervention team for this or any other errand.

The simplest way to find an appropriate intervention specialist is to get a referral from the addict's physician or the treatment center you have made arrangements with.

A weekly paper conducted an interview with a San Francisco Ultima Online addict in the early 2000s and found his apartment plagued with rats and the smell of urine.

For the video game addict in your life, choosing a couple of games for the PS3 should be a no-brainer.

If you haven't been a Mario Kart addict since day one, you won't notice a thing.

It also keeps track of the time you've played the game (so you can see how much of an addict you are!).

Renting video games online is a new convenience for the 21st century game addict.

If you are a game addict like me, certain games just cannot be played on a console.

Fortunately, for a game addict like me, they offer a game pass.

T-Mobile offers a ton of free minutes and is great for the cell-phone addict that doesn't travel very much.

Tolerance-A condition in which an addict needs higher doses of a substance to achieve the same effect previously achieved with a lower dose.

It includes patterns of use in the addict's family or subculture, peer pressure, and advertising or media influence.

For the addict, sex addiction eventually brings feelings of being out of control.

The addict may spend money unwisely on dates, hotel rooms, prostitutes, or pornography.

For the addict, a brief sexual encounter is one in a long series of such events.

For the partner in that encounter, the addict's easy dismissal of any emotional ties can be insulting and upsetting.

An addict's behavior can put a severe strain on a long-term relationship.

When the addict continually pursues sexual encounters with people outside that partnership, the other partner feels hurt and betrayed.

And, just as the addict needs a higher dose of the drug, a partner who is addicted to the feelings he gets with new love, will look for opportunities.

If your child is a couch potato or video game addict, set rules.

They're sticking with us for Spring, with silver, gold and pewter high on every shoe addict's wish list.

Though it's almost impossible for a fashion addict to resist a good trend, keeping up with said trend isn't always an affordable task.

If you want to save money on footwear while staying on top of trends, a Skechers outlet is a shoe addict's paradise!

Popular television websites that report on One Tree Hill spoilers include TV Guide, The TV Addict, Ausiello Files and Watch with Kristin.

The TV Addict is a self-avowed television lover who blogs on his favorite television shows.

Images include those of Rene, Arlene's lover and Amy, Jason's lover and V-juice addict.

In addition to his coverage of prime time television and prime time soap operas, the TV Addict added a daytime soap opera feature to his television blog in 2010.

Examples of this type of fad diet include Sugar Busters, The Zone, and The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet.

Or that it was produced by John Cale, a reformed drug addict appalled by the band's unruly behavior and chemical intake.

He admitted in a 2008 interview that he used to be a drug addict though he has since kicked the habit.

As far as how I got into this whole thing, well, I've always been a travel addict (I find the just-arrived feeling-when everything is new and still unknown-totally exhilarating!).

Featured on the cable channel Arts & Entertainment, Intervention first aired in 2005 as a documentary-style program following the day-to-day life of an addict.

After covering the issues at hand, the show films an intervention where friends and family members lovingly confront the addict and urge them to seek treatment.

The addict is offered a 90-day rehabilitation treatment plan and may meet serious consequences if they refuse.

One of the gut-wrenching aspects of A and E Intervention is sometimes during the course of an episode it is clear a concerned friend or family member is a struggling addict as well.

Many interventions that seem to go well end with news that the addict is worse off than before, while others are surprisingly positive in light of a difficult episode.

The issue hit home for Theut, who is a former drug addict himself.

Josh seems to be less of an addict and more of an attention seeker.

The addict is eating, or in one case drinking, this food at the expense of health, relationships, and even finances.

I can reveal self-confessed sex addict Russell Brand, 31, is after her.

Everyone knew that Mavis was a hopeless drug addict.

For anyone mildly interested in the genre, this should make you a hardcore addict!

Once the addict commits to change, former addicts turned rehabilitation coaches lead the addict through the desert.

Caesareanple is a woman in labor refusing a cesarean; or a pregnant drug addict who will not give up drugs.

Like a caffeine addict failing to resist the lure of a frothy cappuccino, sheâs back for a second hit.

Jack is a cricket addict and would have loved to play for England, if he hadn't become a successful cinematographer.

Without even knowing it I had become a drug addict.

A young drug addict found his way to the vicarage and Alan took him in.

Calling a fellow wiz a drug addict is only excusable if that wiz actually IS a drug addict.

This merely verifies the picture which mothers frequently inculcate in their children - that their father is an alcoholic or drug addict.

It's more a responsibility to yourself not to become a maniac or a depressive or a drug addict.

A JUDGE has refused to ban a drug addict from carrying drug paraphernalia on the grounds the definition is too vague.

He advised him to addict himself to an assiduous study of the more idiomatic English writers, such as Swift and Addison - with a view to unlearn his foreign idiom and recover his halfforgotten vernacular - a task, however, which he never perfectly accomplished.

Mr Clinton, 60, who underwent a quadruple heart bypass two years ago, is a former junk food addict.

Now a self-confessed internet addict, Maureen wrote a weekly " Silver Surfer " column for The Times from 2003 to 2005.

Now a confirmed addict, she trawls Paris in search of salty, sensuous pleasures.

Slowly, like a heroin addict weaned off by methadone, I had the inside of my head adjusted.

If you're looking for ways to expand your knowledge, check out The Lingerie Addict, one of the world's most popular lingerie blogs.

They're $19.50 each, and I'm an eye shadow addict.

Another great lip gloss I've recently discovered and adore is Dior Addict Reflect Ultra Gloss, which is also a non-gooey lip gloss that has a very juicy/sparkly finish.

If you happen to know a complete Daisy addict, you might want to surprise her with a unique gift.

A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes.

Don't think just because your family does not fit into the stereotype of a teen drug addict that your teenager won't use drugs.

For the first couple of weeks and even longer, the effects of withdrawal are powerful for a meth addict.

Providing a meth addict with non-drug related activities is important.

The addict undergoing this example of new treatments for meth addiction begins the process by undergoing an IV therapy session for an hour each time on three consecutive days.

Along with the IV therapy, the addict receives nutrition counseling and nutritional supplements.

The third part of this approach to treatment involves changing the addict's behavior.

A successful treatment plan must address these issues, as well as the images and situations that trigger an addict to start using the drug again.

These can occur whenever a meth addict stops taking the drug.

Alcoholism or drug addiction intervention is used to "bring the bottom up" for the alcoholic or addict.

Through this process, the addict's bottom is "brought up" so he can begin recovery before further damage occurs to their lives and others.

The goal is to break through the denial and get the addict started on recovery.

Intervention is an intelligent, emotionally balanced, psychologically sound method enabling a controlled confrontation, where the addict doesn't feel like an accused victim by family members.

Instead, the addict realizes that the intervention discussion results from a sense of genuine family concern.

He/she will help the family get needed important information about the nature of the addiction and common problems with an addict's substance abuse.

The actual meeting is usually held at the addict's home.

Family members emphasize the impact the addict's negative behavior is creating rather than on his shortcomings.

The addict turns up in the light of day.

The addict makes itself a home in those we knew and loved ….

An abuser or addict continues to crave it, even if it's hurting their health or interfering with their responsibilities.

Distinguishing the casual gambler from the true addict can seem difficult, but problem gamblers often exhibit several warning signs.

During this type of treatment, an addict is placed under general anesthesia.

It works by blocking the receptors for opiates and preventing the release of dopamine so an addict no longer gets pleasure from the drugs.

An addict undergoing rapid detox may need up to a year's worth of prescriptions for medications to help eliminate physical cravings.

Whether an addict has been clean for 30 days or three years, marking the milestone puts his/her life in perspective and offers hope for the future.

If a person is not a recovering addict, he/she may have family or friends who were once addicted to a substance or behavior.

Any addict who wishes to withdraw from a long-term heroin addiction should seek help from a physician.

Counseling will give the addict an opportunity to address emotional issues related to drug abuse and learn new ways of resisting drugs and addictive behavior.

Without admitting to a problem, an addict will be unable to seek the most appropriate treatment.

Just because an addict underwent counseling or was inducted into a rehab program for short term treatment, it doesn't mean that the recovery process is over.

In certain cases, it is too easy for the addict to leave the facility and fall back in with old friends and old habits.

This method can be controversial, but is often preferred because the addict is under anesthesia during the withdrawal process.

A psychological addiction can monopolize an addict's thoughts long after the drug is out of the physical system.

In order to combat a physical addiction, it is essential that the addict find a way to get the drug out of their system.

No matter which route is taken, it is essential for the addict to know that the physiological causes of drug addiction can be hard to combat.

The goal of creative arts therapy is to provide the addict with a constructive way to deal with the emotions surrounding his/her addiction.

While creative arts therapy can be a very useful tool in overcoming drug addiction, it should be cautioned that poetry alone is not enough to help an addict make a full recovery.

How you can identify Everquest addicts, or any kind of online video game addict, and are there ways you can find support?

You might think the addict will walk out as soon as he or she sees everyone gathered around. but usually the person is shocked and curious enough to stay and hear what everyone has to say.

It's not until the addict denies help that loved ones begin reading their letters.

One family member or friend may initiate the idea of an intervention, but if there is not significant buy-in from the rest of the addict or alcoholic's support system, the intervention may not work.

If the addict's employer is involved in the intervention, you may be able to access an intervention specialist through the company's employee assistance program.

She supposedly is under the care of the doctor who helped former addict Kelly Osbourne come clean.

Damon had appeared in eleven other films before winning his first Oscar, but it was his role as a heroin addict veteran in 1996's Courage Under Fire that won him the respect and admiration of many powerhouse actors.

It destroys more than the addict's life.

In order to transform herself into a drug addict, Berry reportedly did not bathe or shower for two weeks to prepare herself for the role of Vivian.

The role of an addict would soon take hold in real life, as Robert Downey Jr. became an addict himself.

His wife of 11 years now, Tea Leoni, also addressed the issue with jokes, stating that the notion of her then new husband being a sex addict "very exciting."

David Duchovny, as everyone knows, is an admitted sex addict, but apparently this wasn't the only issue in the marriage.

Her character was a drug addict, but director Joel Schumacher urged her to give up the drugs and sent her home.

Yep, more jail time just might do this violence prone, former (that's arguable) drug addict a little bit of good.

Her father was also an alcoholic and drug addict.

However, having this brain disease does not absolve the addict of responsibility for his or her behavior, but it does explain why many addicts cannot stop using drugs by sheer force of will alone.

Sober living houses are run by a fellow recovering addict who has been clean for a longer period of time than the other residents.

Trailer Addict is always a source of the latest movie trailers, and of course that's also where you'll find a feature trailer for the movie in addition to a long thread of commentary from fans.

Busey, once a former cocaine addict, has reportedly been sober for 13 years.

The main goal of the session is to break through self-denial barriers and diversion that family victims have been practicing, and to make the addict aware of the impact their addiction is having on their loved ones and significant others.

Denton has played Mike Delfino since the show's inaugural season, during which time the character became a victim of a hit and run, suffered from amnesia, became a drug addict, gotten married, and became a father.

However, if the family and friends of the alcoholic or addict are able to organize themselves beforehand and follow a few simple intervention tips, it can calm the participants and increase the chance of holding a successful intervention.

In an interview for Playgirl magazine, done over a decade ago, Duchovny addressed the rampant rumor that he was addicted to the more carnal pleasures in life with an emphatic "I am not a sex addict."

The game combines all of the intricacies of the mobster mythos - families, big bosses, wars, missions - with a game play that is easy enough to occupy both the casual user and the game addict.