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drug addict

noun as in person addicted to narcotics

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"They were drug addicts. If it expires, they might go back there, and here they are reformed."

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Ben's family believe that different treatment and support for drug addicts could have helped him.

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Chris, meanwhile, struggles with the strained relationship he has with his mother, who is a drug addict.

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It’s like, I guess that’s what drug addicts do ... it’s hard to explain the exact feeling.

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It began after she left her mother's home to live with her father, a drug addict who introduced her to dealers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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