Addiction – Definition

Published January 14, 2014

addiction – definition – addiction (noun) 1. The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. 2. A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one’s life but when ceas…

Viewpoint: Why Brain Death Isn't An On-Off Switch

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… is that consciousness is not merely something that is present or absent. One recent study, which I wrote about for TIME, for example, explored people's responses to random sounds like clicks or those that have meaning, like words, as they were …
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Peter Hitchens – the progressive Puritan

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Hitchens' attack on the 'fantasy of addiction' was deemed by Perry as being 'as ludicrous as saying Peter Pan is real'. When pushed by Hitchens for an objective definition of addiction, Perry, a 'recovering addict' himself, offered up his life as …
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