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drug addict

[ druhg ad-ikt ]

noun

Sometimes Offensive.
  1. a person who is addicted to a chemical substance, especially a narcotic.


drug addict

noun

  1. any person who is abnormally dependent on narcotic drugs See addiction
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Sensitive Note

See addict.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of drug addict1

First recorded in 1915–20
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A year after that, I would end up in inpatient trauma therapy while Nick apparently told people that I was a drug addict and mentally unstable.

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There’s the FBI, corrupt politicians, money-hungry pharma reps, the sick and the terminally ailing, drug addicts — anyone who might want to use the mushroom for any purpose.

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"They faced discrimination from society - they all point fingers at them and call them drug addicts. This has affected them a lot," she says.

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He reportedly dubbed King a “chronic drug addict and alcoholic who refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem.”

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First, Sis, her youngest daughter and a drug addict, goes missing.

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