How to Use nonaddictive in a Sentence

nonaddictive

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• Pharma execs and sales reps insisted that the painkiller was both nonaddictive and long-lasting.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2021
• There’s another reason to space it out: Psychedelics, while nonaddictive, can cause a tolerance to build.
  — Simone Kitchens, The Cut, 3 May 2018
• The compound is also nonaddictive, so there is no risk of becoming dependent on it.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Wonder what a nonaddictive social-media app would look like?
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• The most superfluous tale centers on Gary Oldman, who plays a college professor testing for a nonaddictive painkiller that's too good to be true.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
• The Senate legislation would give money to the National Institutes of Health to research a nonaddictive painkiller.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
• One of the provisions would direct the National Institutes of Health to develop nonaddictive painkillers.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Weed was considered nonaddictive in the 1960s because the levels of the psychoactive chemical THC were minimal.
  — Erica Komisar, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Catnip is considered to be nonaddictive and completely harmless to cats.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
• Your friend who lost both her brother and niece to addiction fueled by the false notion that OxyContin was virtually nonaddictive still struggles with misplaced guilt over their tragic deaths.
  — Paul Pelletier, STAT, 20 Dec. 2021
• For our public speaking example, nonaddictive beta-blockers are sometimes used to control a client's heart rate, such that the body does not respond with alarm to a situation that might otherwise feel quite alarming.
  — John Duffy, CNN, 2 June 2021
• Last week, the agency took the first step toward lowering the level of nicotine in cigarettes to minimally addictive or nonaddictive levels.
  — Meg Tirrell and Angelica Lavito, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• The law also requires the reduction of nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels—a policy that is expected to be implemented by 2024.
  — Jennifer Maloney, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
• Marijuana has long been considered a nonaddictive drug that causes few, if any, serious side effects.
  — NBC News, 11 July 2021
• The family stands to lose billions after a litany of lawsuits claiming that their company marketed the painkiller OxyContin as nonaddictive despite knowing otherwise.
  — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2019
• Neurontin and related generics have long been considered nonaddictive and are not tracked as closely by regulators.
  — Matthew Perrone, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
• The second initiative is a pilot program at the county jail that would treat 65 inmates addicted to opioids with Vivitrol, a nonaddictive, extended-release prescription drug.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• The drugmaker Purdue Pharma had sent an army of sales reps into eastern Kentucky and other regions with high disability rates to promote the idea that pain was vastly undertreated, and that its new drug was virtually nonaddictive.
  — Beth MacY, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• Even so, health experts say any effort to decrease nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels would be a radical experiment, one that has never been implemented by any other country.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• As with many other psychedelics, the compound can be synthesized in laboratories and is thought to be nonaddictive and low in toxicity; unlike with many other psychedelics, the trip is relatively short, typically lasting around thirty minutes.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Now, the Biden administration is reportedly considering a similar rule to limit the amount of nicotine permitted in tobacco products to near nonaddictive levels.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2021
• Maybe that’s true, in that if Purdue Pharma, the family’s company, hadn’t aggressively marketed OxyContin as a purportedly nonaddictive solution to pain of any sort, history might have been different.
  — Bethany McLean, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Arthur Sackler promoted Roche’s Valium and Librium as nonaddictive.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• Hassell’s album is tranquilizing — like benzos but nonaddictive.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019

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