Addicted
Addicted adjective - Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming.
Usage example: addicted to cocaine
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Synonyms for Addicted
Hooked is a synonym for addicted in compulsive topic. In some cases you can use "Hooked" instead an adjective "Addicted". popular alternative
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Hilariously portrayed because everyone in the cast who swore not to become addicted to it got hooked.
Source: Soap Within a Show - In a Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode, Linka visits her cousin Boris who gets her hooked on drugs, and turns into an addicted zombie.
Source: Long-Lost Uncle Aesop - While people who are hooked on gambling are hooked on the rush of risking everything to win big, other addicted gamblers will gladly keep blowing money on a game until they can win back everything they lost just because they already lost money in the first place.
Source: Sunk Cost Fallacy
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