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Holmes is addicted to the use of cocaine and other refreshing stimulants ; ;

Ashamed of our wealth and power, afraid of so-called world opinion and addicted to peace, we have allowed our soft-heartedness to lead to soft-headed policies.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

He appears to have been rather addicted to the pleasures of the table, according to Athenaeus.

In 1992, Vanity Fair published an article by journalist Lynn Hirschberg which alluded that Love was addicted to heroin during her pregnancy.

Granada hurried to update the programme, with the hope of introducing more issue-driven stories, including Lucille Hewitt becoming addicted to drugs, Jerry Booth being in a storyline about homosexuality, Emily Nugent having an out of wedlock child, and introducing a black family, but all of these ideas were dropped for fear of upsetting viewers.

In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.

She is addicted to sleeping pills, absorbed in the shallow dramas played on her " parlor walls " ( flat-panel televisions ), and indifferent to the oppressive society around her.

He was addicted to women and pleasures of the flesh, so he ordered five palaces to be built: the five palaces of the senses.

He was the antithesis of old, conservative Germans like Bismarck, addicted to the new imperialism that was taking place in Asia and Africa.

In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, " Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of ' cocaine sniffing ' or the ' coke habit.

By 1914, the problem had grown to the point where an estimated one U. S. citizen in 400 ( 0. 25 %) was addicted to some form of opium.

Liwat is regarded as a temptation, and anal intercourse is not seen as repulsively unnatural so much as dangerously attractive: " one has to avoid getting buggered precisely in order not to acquire a taste for it and thus become addicted.

In its aftermath Lewis became addicted to the pain killer Percodan for some thirteen years.

She is known for her starring role as Fran, a mother addicted to drugs in the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Corner.

Kits are tested while young ; a female who displays too much intelligence is taken away and killed, and a male who displays knowledge they could not have gotten except by telepathy is taken away and addicted to sthondat lymph to become a Telepath.

Michael is addicted to Robitussin cough syrup, which contains the dissociative drug dextromethorphan.

When it was over, he was severely addicted to cocaine.

In controlled studies comparing the physiological and subjective effects of injected heroin and morphine in individuals formerly addicted to opiates, subjects showed no preference for one drug over the other.

Heroin is converted to morphine before binding to the opioid receptors in the brain and spinal cord, where morphine then causes the subjective effects, which is what the addicted individuals are ultimately looking for.

The treatment of opiate addicted persons with Methadone will follow one of two routes.

Methadone reduction programmes are suitable for addicted persons who wish to stop using drugs altogether.

It is also indicated for pregnant women addicted to opiates.

A higher methadone dose may be considered preferable by a clinic treating patients addicted to illicit opioids, in order to discourage the use of illegal opioids.

Meanwhile, Wynyard ( the drug addicted knife thrower ) tells Robert his story of Vietnam, and convinces Robert to give him $ 50 for buying drugs from Trevor.