Only a workaholic would prefer the first solution.

I'm addicted, because even though I know I'm losing my grip on reality, I still crave more.

I'm addicted to translating sentences from French into English on Tatoeba, and Spanish is tempting me sorely.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre but patient, not a brawler, not covetous

We talked to 600 drug addicts in three cities in Indonesia, and we said, Well, do you know how you get HIV?

Like drug addicts or the mentally ill who refuse treatment, we need our friends to intervene.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward not self pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre

But, like an incorrigible drug addict, they are unable to say, Enough. We have made a mistake, and we have to remedy it before it s too late.

And everyone was supposed to be happy in that community and, in fact, my life was hell. I lived with an alcoholic father who beat me and molested me, and it was all inside that.

As with any addiction, it is very difficult, for neurochemical reasons, for an addict to stop doing things even very self destructive things that enable him to get that next hit of dopamine. Could this be why men who in the past could take time delayed steps to conduct affairs behind closed doors now can t resist the impulse to send a self incriminating text message?

And when your parent is a drug addict, it's kind of like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, because as much as you want to love on that person, as much as you want to receive love from that person, every time you open your heart, you end up on your back.

But, like an incorrigible drug addict, they are unable to say, Enough. We have made a mistake, and we have to remedy it before it s too late.

The addictive potential is also identical just as gamblers and cocaine users can become compulsive, needing to gamble or snort more and more to get the same dopamine boost, so can men consuming pornography become hooked.

But those ways of being rational are not independent of one another, so it's rational for a drug injector to share needles because of a stupid decision that's made by a politician, and it's rational for a politician to make that stupid decision because they're responding to what they think the voters want.

Like drug addicts or the mentally ill who refuse treatment, we need our friends to intervene. So remember us as we were in our better moments, and take action to save us and the world from ourselves.