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nonaddict

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Nonaddict (noun) means a person who is not addicted to anything.

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A person who is not addicted to anything.

"Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active)." — Benoit Denizet-Lewis, An Anti-Addiction Pill? (2006)

"What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict." — Michael Massing, Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly (2000)

"But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death." — Richard Severo, Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed (1971)

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