adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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We also have a good explanation of why children continue to smoke: cigarettes are highly addictive .
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And morphine from opium is illegally converted to the highly addictive drug. heroin, widely abused in Western societies.
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Produces a relaxed euphoria and is highly addictive .
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Be warned that, once mastered, it is highly addictive .
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This is a superb program highly addictive , beautifully created and often fast and furious.
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Heroin About £80 per gram Sedation. Highly addictive .
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Try not to rely on Valium - it's highly addictive and will cause more problems in the long run.
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Mass adoration is a highly addictive drug.
■ NOUN
drug
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They seem to act on the host's nervous system in rather the same way as an addictive drug .
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Then, says Sicher, the caregiver can be like an addictive drug to the child.
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This is not so hard to sympathize with, even for those with no experience of addictive drugs .
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This can give rise to the mistaken belief that cocaine is not an addictive drug .
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It is the most addictive drug ever - many become addicted from the first time they use it.
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Insert an addictive drug into the system and the din from the second messengers becomes deafening.
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Not obtaining addictive drugs or collecting prescriptions on behalf of the sufferer.
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Mass adoration is a highly addictive drug .
substance
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Addictive behaviour is used just as addictive substances are used by people who are prone to addictive disease.
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Relapse can be seen in changes of mood before it leads back to use of the addictive substance or behaviour.
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She had an overwhelming fear of syphilis, and the pattern of her tippling was similar to that with other addictive substances .
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While still suffering, the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour.
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By learning to let the sufferer take the full consequences of the use of addictive substances or behaviour.
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Detoxification from alcohol or drugs and weaning from other addictive substances or behaviours.
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The alternative to the hopeless choice between continuing disorders of mood or continuing recourse to addictive substances or behaviours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Crack is a highly addictive form of cocaine.
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Golf can be addictive and time-consuming.
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Humphrey claims that the tobacco industry hid evidence that cigarettes were addictive .
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Most addictive drugs are illegal.
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Nicotine in cigarettes is an addictive drug.
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The caffeine in coffee is mildly addictive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Addictive behaviour is used just as addictive substances are used by people who are prone to addictive disease.
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Alcoholism and other forms of addictive disease are more probably born rather than made.
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At the age of twenty, after a life of violent and addictive behaviour, the girl, Nancy, was murdered.
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Crack is a cheaper, smokable form which is powerfully addictive .
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He found it addictive , stimulating, endlessly absorbing, and he allowed nothing-certainly no personal involvements - to distract him.
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It can be addictive , for power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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What happens to children bought up in families in which there is an addictive disease?