Maybe Dwight Gooden has finally learned to take it one day at a time, which is the only way it works for the seriously addicted.

"It is estimated that the number of seriously addicted individuals has tripled in just four years while the availability of treatment slots has remained essentially the same," the complaint says.

Thousands of people in Silicon Valley are seriously addicted to speed - the pace at which information flows, that is.

"They are largely alcoholics, seriously addicted, and represent threats to the public safety."

Not that she was seriously addicted.

But only the seriously addicted or addled are likely to tote an eight-pound multimedia computer to the field in search of the vermilion flycatcher.

The pleasant tingle so well known to kender, a tingle to which they are seriously addicted, began in the vicinity of Tasslehoff's spine.

That's why I think a child could become seriously addicted to Jan Pienkowski's Nursery Board Books (Heinemann, £1.99).

He is seriously addicted to gambling, and is heavily in debt to a vicious gangster (the Usurer).

Substance-abuse rehabilitation (or "rehab") centers offer a residential treatment program for some of more seriously addicted in order to isolate the patient from drugs and interactions with other users and dealers.