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drug addict

noun as in person addicted to narcotics

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He included me in a show, along with some child actors who’d gone on to become drug addicts, called “People Who Succeed Too Early in Life.”

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And they argue this “modest, modern” limit make sense because well-armed drug addicts “present unique dangers to society — especially because they pose a grave risk of armed, hostile encounters with police officers while impaired.”

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"I know what it's like to say I am a drug addict, and the stigma that comes with that," he said.

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The SNP's critics point to what they see as a dismal domestic record, on the NHS, housing and the number of deaths among drug addicts, for instance.

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I was not supposed to be a drug addict.

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

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