Definition of "addicting"

whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys.

1936 June 1, Nathan Browne Eddy, quotee, “Morphine Substitutes”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 21 November 2010

similar in action to codeine salts but when compared with codeine on the basis of weight is more active, and more addicting.

1950, Council on Drugs (American Medical Association) with Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association), New and Nonofficial Drugs, page 42

When we didn't have narcotics laws, when we could go and buy this stuff like you could candy and potatoes, laudanum was a very addicting drug

1957, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Juvenile Delinquency (Treatment and Rehabilitation of Juvenile Drug Addicts), page 182

Cocaine has been reconceptualized as our most addicting drug and crack is viewed as the most addicting form of cocaine

1992, Barbara C. Wallace, The Chemically Dependent: Phases of Treatment and Recovery, page 22

That is why smoking and intravenous injection are the routes of administration chosen by addicted people and why these routes of administration are so much more addicting than is oral use of the same drug.

2000, Robert L. DuPont with Betty Ford, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, page 101

For though in his Nature there is a Tendency to Rational Pleasures, yet this he may, and very frequently does, stifle and extinguish by addicting himself wholly to the Delights and Gratifications of his Sense

1686, John Scott, The Christian Life: From Its Beginning to Its Consummation in Glory, page 60

Mr. Johnson's communication states that the preparation "has a large sale, and is addicting the public to its use"

1898, New York (State). Dept. of Health, Annual Report, page 371