Object

• gambler: There is no other specialist provider of residential treatment to severely addicted gamblers in the UK.

Converse of object

• mac-toting: It was a rebellion against his peers, Mac-toting iPod addicts, one and all.

• recover: We who are grateful recovering cocaine addicts ask you to listen closely to our stories.

• rehabilitate: I think of the center for rehabilitating drug addicts which was faced with losing its housing benefits.

• gamble: Australia may have the highest number of gambling addicts per head of population in the world.

Adjective modifier

• self-confessed: I can reveal self-confessed sex addict Russell Brand, 31, is after her.

• opiate: Over 20 months 137 consecutive opiate addicts were followed after in-patient detoxification.

• hopeless: Everyone knew that Mavis was a hopeless drug addict.

• hardcore: For anyone mildly interested in the genre, this should make you a hardcore addict!

• homeless: The center also registered an increase in the number of homeless drug addicts using its services.

• former: Once the addict commits to change, former addicts turned rehabilitation coaches lead the addict through the desert.

Modifying Another Word

• helplessly: I've become totally, helplessly addicted to Sudoku, a Japanese logic puzzle which can be anything from.. .

• hopelessly: I asked my friend Philip, who is hopelessly addicted to the things, what he thought.

Noun used with modifier

• heroin: Most heroin addicts don't usually want to stop being addicts.

• cocaine: There are a reported two million male cocaine addicts in the US.

• drug: Britain has a million hard drug addicts for the first time ever.

• opium: He had been a follower of Confucius and an opium addict and his wife had demonic problems.

• telly: I love reading and writing, watching movies and, to my shame, I am a hopeless telly addict, especially soaps!

• gambling: Also worrying is one of the fathers is a 38 year old gambling addict living with his parents.

Infinitive complement

• crack: Everyone who drinks grande one shot latte ends up addicted to crack.