jonesing

Zoobiquityを読んでいます。内容は期待以上に面白く、図書館で借りる本の合間に少しづつ読むつもりでしたが、どんどん読み進んでいます。英語の表現や単語も覚えたいものが多く出て来ます。
Drug seeking. Raised tolerance. Attempts to get stronger and more frequent doses.
Begging or jonesing for a drug. If human beings were the only creatures who showed these classic addiction behaviors, then we could say the disease is uniquely human. But clearly we aren't alone. Across the animal kingdom--not just in mammals with highly developed brains--animals react to drugs in comparable, although of course not totally identical, ways.
"jonesing" は人の名前のJonesを思い起こさせますが、関係あるのでしょうか？
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to want something very much: I'm jonesing for a coffee - can we take a break?
・Oxford English Dictionary: Have a fixation on; be addicted to: Palmer was jonesing for some coke again.
Origin 1960s: said to come from Jones Alley, in Manhattan, associated with drug addicts.
やはり関係ありましたね。