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drug addict Definition

drug addict

noun

a habitual user of narcotics

drug addict Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • recover: Most research over the past 25 years has shown that CES reduced anxiety and improved cognition in recovering drug addicts and alcoholics.
  • help: We help drug addicts, but we test offenders for drugs and if theyre positive, we demand they get treatment.
  • become: Without even knowing it I had become a drug addict.
  • have: Britain has a million hard drug addicts for the first time ever.
  • rehabilitate: I think of the center for rehabilitating drug addicts which was faced with losing its housing benefits.
  • give: But he promised to give drug addicts a choice between jail or treatment, by increasing residential rehabilitation places from 2,000 to 20,000.

Adjective modifier

  • former: I think of the former drug addicts now helping to run one of our most successful programs to tackle drug abuse.
  • homeless: The center also registered an increase in the number of homeless drug addicts using its services.
  • hard: Britain has a million hard drug addicts for the first time ever.
  • young: A young drug addict found his way to the vicarage and Alan took him in.
  • hopeless: Everyone knew that Mavis was a hopeless drug addict.
  • famous: Famous drug addicts are regarded as a disgrace; famous drunks are just to be laughed at.

Modifies a noun

  • mother: His drug addict mother, Ruth, was jailed after admitting cruelty toward Rikki and two of his three sisters.

Preposition: in

  • area: They also made sure that drug treatment and outreach services were available for drug addicts in the area.

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