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joneses

noun

plural of jones, slang

as in addictions

a physiological need for certain drugs that dude had a jones for heroin like you wouldn't believe

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Recent Examples of joneses Six-figure workers reeling in half a million-dollar salaries are struggling to keep up with the joneses. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2026

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addictions

Noun

In the last year, a few companies have begun to market off-label prescriptions of GLP-1s, both branded and compounded, to treat alcohol use disorder and other addictions.

— Katie Palmer, STAT, 22 Oct. 2026
With the exception of gambling disorder, behavioral addictions have received slim recognition in psychiatry’s diagnostic manuals—although doctors and researchers often still treat them as legitimate and potentially devastating disorders.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026