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addiction

 noun
     
Related topics: Drug Culture
ad‧dic‧tion [uncountable and countable]
1MDD the need to take a harmful drug regularly, without being able to stop
addiction to
addiction to alcohol
2 a strong desire to do or have something regularly
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