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Around the beginning of the 20th century the word "addict" switched from an adjective to a noun, to refer primarily to drug dependency.<ref>https://www.northpointrecovery.com/blog/slave-addiction-origins-word/</ref>
 
Around the beginning of the 20th century the word "addict" switched from an adjective to a noun, to refer primarily to drug dependency.<ref>https://www.northpointrecovery.com/blog/slave-addiction-origins-word/</ref>
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== Latin and Greek roots==
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The Latin root is most common cited as the origin for "addiction": "addictus" (its past tense is addicere).
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But the earlier Greek root, "adikia", is the one used in the [[New Testament]].
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
 
*[[addiction]]
 
*[[addiction]]
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
 
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