1 if a drug is addictive, it makes people unable to stop taking it:
Heroin is highly addictive. * Marijuana is said to be psychologically though not physically addictive.
2 if an activity or type of behaviour is addictive, people need to do it as often as possible because they enjoy it:
I find jogging very addictive. * Some people have an addictive personality.
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