Definition of Heroin addict

1. Noun. Someone addicted to heroin.

Generic synonyms: Drug Addict, Junkie, Junky

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroin Addict

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heroical
heroically
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heroicized
heroicizes
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heroick
heroickly
heroicly
heroicness
heroicomic
heroicomical
heroics
heroin
heroin addict (current term)
heroin addiction
heroin chic
heroin dependence
heroin esterase
heroine
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heroinism
heroinisms
heroinlike
heroins
heroinware
heroise
heroised
heroises

Literary usage of Heroin addict

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. State Methadone Treatment Guidelines: A Treatment Improvement Protocol by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Cocaine used alone causes sufficient agitation that the heroin addict may ... It is not appropriate to deny a heroin addict treatment in a methadone ..."

2. Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research (1991): The Third Triennial Report to edited by MaryLouise Embrey, Christine R. Hartel (1999)
"... history of liver disease, and the serological and biochemical evidence of chronic liver disease, were similar in the heroin addict and methadone groups. ..."

3. America's Habit: Drug Abuse, Drug Trafficking, and Organized Crime by Manuel Gonzales, Kevin McEnery, Thomas Sheehan, Susan Mellody (1998)
"... The heroin addict Historically, data collection and law enforcement experience support the view that heroin use has been an urban phenomenon, ..."

4. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"The morphin habitue is far less common than the heroin addict in New York City. The ease with which the latter drug can be taken and the fact that heroin is ..."

5. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"Because many of these people believe that "if you don't stick a needle in your arm, you can't be a cocaine or heroin addict," they often present for ..."

6. Technologies for Understanding and Preventing Substance Abuse and Addictionby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Feldman, HW, "Ideological Supports To Becoming and Remaining a heroin addict," Journal of Health and Social Behavior 9(2): 131-139,1968. 21. ..."

7. Protecting Children in Substance-Abusing Families by Vickie Kropenske, Judy Howard (1995)
"A heroin addict may administer the drug as many as four to six times a day. Many addicts will "chip" (use infrequently) for extended periods of time before ..."

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