O.K., I confess. I might be an addict.
As a boy, Jerald Walker was a drug addict and a drop-out.
One unnamed American college student told of their overwhelming cravings, which they confessed was similar to “itching like a crackhead(crack cocaine addict)”.
I'm an addict and an alcoholic.
In this unhealthy addiction, with each separation the addict hangs on tighter, feeling ever more desperate.
For example, they might tell themselves that they're actually helping an addict by prescribing them certain drugs," Russell says.
She became an addict of Christianity.
The addict learns to recognize how their thinking, their feelings, and their behaviors lead them into the addictive cycle.
By placing addiction on equal footing with more conventional medical disorders, they sought to create an image of the addict as a hapless victim of his own wayward neurochemistry.
The addict may reveal the tip of the iceberg to a friend, but rarely the extent of the obsession.
I've seen enough cases where the family withdrew and then something [awful happened to the addict].
The balance shifts and the addict tips into recovery.
There she would tell patients: “Hi, I’m Betty. I’m an addict and an alcoholic.”
An explosion of anger or tears, like a geyser eruption, lessens internal pressure so that the addict can function until the pressure builds up again.
"It'd be sad when you have to go back to reality," said Della Whitton, 41, Simpson's girlfriend and fellow Disney addict.
