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Fully 10% of Americans have suffered from drug addiction in their lives, and nearly all Americans have suffered from that or other types of addition.
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→Latin and Greek roots
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The Greek "adikia" includes the root for justice, "dike", and conveys the concept that addiction consists of someone extending improperly outside of his own realm without respect for his neighbor. The indirect harm caused by addiction to others, in addit
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But the earlier Greek root, "adikia", is the one used in the New Testament. This term is used 25 times in 24 verses in the Greek New Testament (in 5 unique forms of the word), according to Strong's.
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Shakespeare was the first to use "addiction" in the modern sense, in his play ''Henry V'', in reference to the king
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Addiction etymology, or the historical roots of the word "addiction", are fascinating.
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