How to Use addiction in a Sentence

addiction

noun

• He has a drug addiction.
• His life has been ruined by heroin addiction.
• He devotes his summers to his surfing addiction.
• And a lot of us in our own lives have been touched by addiction.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The money made risking his life in the ring went to feed his addiction.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• Years ago, in the throes of addiction, Teasley was homeless.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2022
• The city was once hailed for its response to addiction.
  — Jessica Gallagher, New York Times, 23 May 2024
• Angie starts the show sober but struggled with drug addiction in the past.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 28 Dec. 2022
• His addiction takes the form of a sentient cloud of smoke voiced, no kidding, by George C. Scott.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• His mom, Lady, had a drug addiction for the early part of his life.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2023
• She was treated for an addiction to sleeping pills in the 1980s.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• With the surge in sports betting, the risk of gambling addiction rises too.
  — Npr Staff, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
• In court, Alderete blamed his crimes on a fentanyl addiction.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 6 Aug. 2024
• Now, most of them come in to be treated for fentanyl addiction.
  — The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2022
• That’s a victory, if a small one, so long as the withdrawal doesn’t drive us back to the addiction.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Chelsea has struggled with drug addiction for a decade.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024
• And — to be clear — some people are just wired this way, even without addiction’s pull.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• According to the claim, Rios lost custody of the siblings around 2015 due to drug addiction.
  — Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
• After many years in the throes of heroin addiction, Forbes is now four years sober and has twice been named employee of the month.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• He was treated at the Betty Ford Clinic for an addiction to painkillers in 1986.
  — Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• In countries like Britain, sports gambling free-for-alls had left trails of addiction.
  — Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• Williams had been open about his struggles with drug addiction.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Cooper first got sober at 29 years old and has been open about his past addiction struggles.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
• The drugs that came with surgery set her on course for a heroin addiction, which finally killed her.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
• His parents were in the grips of crack addiction and struggling to care for their five kids, relatives say.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2022
• My mom was struggling with drugs and addiction, so we were taken away.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• His health condition was made worse by years spent on the road and battling addiction.
  — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2022
• At first glance these women don’t seem like the faces of Oregon’s addiction crisis.
  — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
• The state agencies charged with addressing hard drug addiction and the safe use of cannabis are failing to educate the public as to the dangers of drug use.
  — Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
• Drug addiction also keeps some out of work, though the causality is unclear.
  — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2025