addicted
adjective
[ əˈdɪktɪd ]
• physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance.
• "she became addicted to alcohol and diet pills"
Origin:
mid 16th century: from the obsolete adjective addict ‘bound or devoted (to someone’), from Latin addict- ‘assigned’, from the verb addicere, from ad- ‘to’ + dicere ‘say’.
