noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drug addict (= someone who cannot stop taking drugs )
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At 20 Steve was a drug addict, unemployed and lonely.
drug addict
heroin addict
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a heroin addict
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cocaine
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He's a cocaine addict , and recently his behaviour has deteriorated rapidly.
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Rank, a cocaine addict , commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.
drug
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Unfortunately, much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts .
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At 17 he was a drug addict .
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The Marquis of Blandford, a former drug addict , married Becky in 1990.
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Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.
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No, a drug addict doesn't get any help.
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The people look furtive, like drug addicts , as they take them out in stacks of four or five.
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Andrew and Wendy plan to work with drug addicts in Hong Kong and they will soon embark on a two-month trial period.
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But when I got to high school, my parents were calling me a drug addict anyway.
heroin
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I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.
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Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first.
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Only with heroin addicts , that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers.
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There was this other guy who was either an aging rocker or a heroin addict , or both.
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Frankfurt has 10,000 registered heroin addicts .
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We know he's a heroin addict .
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She was sharing a room with a girl called Anita, an ex heroin addict .
■ VERB
become
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Doug felt momentarily sorry for this man, who had become an addict through no fault of his own.
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I did not take to the streets, I did not become a crack addict .
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You will probably become an addict and spend much time over the Christmas holiday on fringes for stoles and scarves as well!
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Allowed free access to their own reward centers, many of the rats became hopeless lever addicts .
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Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties, as had most of his friends.
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I became a total bird addict .
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I have in fact become something of an addict of detector technology.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of women drug addicts become prostitutes in order to get money to buy drugs.
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a television addict
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Heroin addicts run an increased risk of getting AIDS.
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It's difficult for most smokers to admit that they are addicts.
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Many addicts refuse to go to treatment centers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And strict application of the law would deny an addict the possibility of rehabilitation.
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Here they began a small home for alcoholics and drug addicts.
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I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.
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It had kept all but the most enthusiastic golf addicts indoors.
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Rank, a cocaine addict , commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.
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Read in studio Former drug abusers fear addicts could die if a rehabilitation centre is forced to close.
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She said she had seen no evidence that the abandoned house was used by drug addicts.