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. Eric Dane:

   To have secrets and to have to live keeping those secrets from people, i've certainly had my struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental health, and I know what it's like to have to put up a facade and have an external experience not match the internal experience. I felt like that was my strongest asset in trying to articulate what the guy's going through.

2. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

3. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

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

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. Diane Carlson:

   Youth marijuana use can have lifelong implications. The risks, which include psychosis, suicide, drug addiction and lower IQs, have been reported based on research on much lower THC potencies than are typically sold on Colorado's commercial market.