adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be addicted to drugs/dependent on drugs (= be unable to stop taking drugs )
▪
People who are addicted to drugs need help.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
By the time he was 16, he was addicted to heroin.
▪
I tried to give up smoking several times before I realized I was addicted .
▪
The children of mothers who use crack or cocaine are often born addicted to the drug.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
But the criminals target the illegal events, sell drugs and encourage people to become addicted .
▪
By the time such warnings were printed, he had become addicted , he says.
▪
By the time warnings were introduced, he says, he had become addicted .
▪
In acute cases, the babies are born addicted to cocaine.
▪
Its quite easy to get addicted to it.
▪
She was like a cured alcoholic who finds he can take a drink without again becoming addicted .
▪
The tragedy is most of them become addicted .