According to researchers, those most likely to be addicted to gaming share some common characteristics with potential problem gamblers.

Source: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video-game-loot-boxes-could-be-linked-to-problem-gambling-b-c-researcher-says-1.6303604

A “despicable” woman who was addicted to drink and drugs stole almost £9,000 from her father while he was ill in hospital.

Source: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23881293.woman-stole-9-000-father-hospital/?ref=rss

A former Officeworks manager who stole almost $50,000 from the company by sending refunds to his own bank account had become “addicted” to committing the thefts.

Source: https://the-riotact.com/officeworks-manager-caught-stealing-50000-from-company-was-addicted-to-thefts/730398

All too often the public perception of the homeless is that they are drunks, bums, drug addicted, crazies, human garbage who should be thrown out or at least moved somewhere else.

Source: https://voiceofsandiego.org/2023/04/06/photos-a-night-under-the-bridge/

And as people become addicted and they lose control, the stigma is internalized even more, because they feel that this is a moral weakness in themselves.

Source: https://www.enewspf.com/science/recovery-is-possible-national-addiction-expert-discusses-stigma-recovery/

And it's very healing - especially as obsessed and addicted to the daily doom-scroll of local, national, and global news as I am."

Source: https://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00209353.html

Angela’s sister told police that Craig “had multiple affairs with several women, told Angela he had been addicted to pornography since he was a teenager and drugged Angela approximately five to six years ago.”

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/colorado-dentist-james-craig-allegedly-poisoned-wifes-protein-shakes-to-start-life-with-lover/

A Republican candidate for Congress found himself being confronted over a more than decade-old Facebook post in which he compared members of the LGBTQ community to people who are "sick, disease," suffer from bipolar disorder, or are addicted to drugs.

Source: https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/01/minnesota-democrats-pushing-for-ban-on-conversion-therapy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minnesota-democrats-pushing-for-ban-on-conversion-therapy

As a consequence the physical and mental deterioration is acute and we are now into about the third generation of people whose parents are/were addicted.

Source: https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/02/05/86620/

As Det Johnny Basil, he assumed the alias Desmond Mobay to go undercover and break up a drug ring, only to get addicted to heroin, forced into murder, and bumped off himself.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/mar/18/lance-reddick-the-wire-john-wick

Ash said, however, that fears vaping is leading to a new generation addicted to nicotine are not justified by the evidence to date.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12095139/Number-kids-whove-tried-vaping-jumps-50-CENT-year.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Attorneys for the state argued at the trial's start that Juul unlawfully targeted young people with vaping products to get a new generation addicted to nicotine.

Source: https://www.baytoday.ca/business/minnesota-is-latest-to-settle-with-e-cigarette-maker-juul-6863776

A young man has dumped his pretty girlfriend from Mount Kenya University(MKU) over claims that she is addicted to cucumbers.

Source: https://www.faceofmalawi.com/2023/09/18/man-breaks-up-with-girlfriend-for-being-addicted-to-cumbers-see-photos-18/

Both are addicted to golf.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/11/mahomes-curry-are-two-perfect-examples-of-a-star-athlete/

But it’s also valuable IP that needs occasional renovations to make it attractive to modern children addicted to a constant supply of new, shiny things.

Source: https://decider.com/2023/05/18/is-it-woke-peter-pan-and-wendy/

But numerous accounts of Trump reveal him to be thin-skinned, addicted to flattery, a megalomaniac, demagogic, impulsive, vindictive, a sociopath, and a narcissist who lacks empathy or a social conscience.

Source: https://www.nationalmemo.com/biden-age-2665874301

Candidly, the long-time addict told the officers that he was and detailed the drugs to which he was addicted – before his solicitor reminded him of her advice and he answered the rest of the officers’ questions ‘no comment’.

Source: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23387388.jail-two-men-involved-danny-drugs-line-oxford/?ref=rss

Citing the 2019 Global Youth Tobacco Survey, the Child Rights Network (CRN) expressed its concern over data showing that one in seven students, or one in five boys and almost one in 10 girls, are addicted to electronic cigarettes.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1833154/as-vaping-epidemic-grips-ph-youth-tobacco-sellers-flout-law-vs-targeting-kids

Efforts to destigmatize drug use may delay this learning, draw out the epidemic, invite new cohorts to try hard drugs, and create more addicted people.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/destigmatizing-drug-use-mistake-opioid-crisis/676292/?utm_source=feed

"Every day in British Columbia, more people die and new people become addicted to illicit drugs that are manufactured and trafficked by organized crime groups that operate in plain sight,” said Insp.

Source: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/7-8m-worth-of-illicit-drugs-seized-in-trafficking-bust-vpd-say-1.6352644