Word: be addicted

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Description/Reason:

to be physically and/or mentally dependent on a certain substance and/or stimulus, e.g. alcohol, drugs, smoking; different from being "dependent on medicine" that keeps one's health from deteriorating


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  1. I would probably tentatively support this. At first I thought this might be expressible with something like {quvyaH'a'} "super-habit", "hyper-habit", but I'm not sure if that expresses the detrimental effects of addiction.