One blockbuster from Pouletty would likely set off a wave of anti-addiction drug development.

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The social costs of family breakdown, welfare dependency, educational failure, crime, anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol addiction are impossible to calculate.

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But, as with the appearance of being anti-business, Mr Obama needs to squash his apparent addiction to big government quickly.

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His endorsement came even as it was becoming undeniable that the Palestinians, with their addiction to terrorism, their support for jihad, and their anti-Americanism and genocidal anti-Semitism, are the embodiment of all the pathologies of the larger Arab world.

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The EU, with its member-nations' own anti-Jewish baggage, a burgeoning and radicalized Muslim minority, and an addiction to Arab oil cannot be expected to stand with Israel.

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Boomers are frequently using anti-anxiety drugs, anti-depressants, and prescription pain medications all of which can lead to dependency and addiction.

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The narcotics industry provides funding and support for anti-government elements and contributes to a public health crisis as evidenced by alarming rates of drug addiction, HIV, and hepatitis.

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"There will be an increase in the drug trade and the people that fall into addiction will not, unfortunately, access treatment, " Claudio Izaguirre, director of the Argentine Anti-drugs Association told Reuters.

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Ms Sandford said that if addiction to smoking was a mental, as well as a physiological, dependence then it was logical that anti-depressants could could play a role in helping smokers to quit.

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