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addict

[ad-ikt, uh-dikt] / ˈæd ɪkt, əˈdɪkt /
NOUN
someone dependent on a substance
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You might think you aren’t phone addicted enough to need this, but chances are you have a loved one or two who could benefit.

From The Wall Street Journal

The self-described caffeine addict drinks three or four coffees a day.

From BBC

The researchers are now repeating the experiments in rats addicted to opioids or fentanyl.

From Scientific American

Prosecutors for the federal government are expected to paint the officer as a gambling addict who carried out the robberies as his debts snowballed.

From Seattle Times

Trump figured out in 2016 that the primary voters are addicted to politically traumatic mythologies and revisionist history, centered upon gays/sex/marriage/male/Caucasian/Christian theocracy, guns, Obama/racial animus, hysteria, paranoia, and COVID.

From Salon