Addict

Definitions

1. A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
2. An adherent or fan (of something).

Equivalents

Examples

“a heroin addict”

“He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.”

“Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow⟳ to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward⟳ system was less active).”

“A stressful environment in which there is ready access to drugs can trump a low genetic risk⟳ of addiction in these animals. The same may be true for humans, too. And that’s a notion many find⟳ hard to believe⟳: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk⟳, can become⟳ an addict under the right circumstances.”

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