drug addict

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.