noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drug/heroin/alcohol etc addiction
drug/heroin/morphine etc addict
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a recovering heroin addict
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
known
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Indeed, this model is consistent with the general pattern of known heroin use throughout Deeside.
■ NOUN
addict
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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 .
addiction
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She gives me antibiotics for my heroin addiction .
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A painful bout with heroin addiction eventually led him to a spiritual rebirth.
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Ann if over her heroin addiction and working on her compulsion to go shoplifting.
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If you can avoid heroin addiction and motorcycle accidents, you might have a swell time.
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Many of the pimps, and some of the girls, have been forced into prostitution to feed a deadly heroin addiction .
habit
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We stole twenty-seven handguns from a National Guard armory to feed our heroin habit .
use
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Indeed, this model is consistent with the general pattern of known heroin use throughout Deeside.
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If heroin use proves relatively harmless to all concerned then we should advocate legal reform and controlled availability.
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Our use of this metaphor is not intended to imply that heroin use is a physical disease with viral or organic origins.
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Nineteen had used only one drug prior to heroin use, principally cannabis, the rest using a variety of drug combinations.
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Prior to his imprisonment, his burgling and dealing activities financed their heroin use .
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As their heroin use continued, it was generally the case that consumption increased.
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Consequently, it was forecast that the prevalence of heroin use might also begin to fall from 1988-9.
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Evidence of widespread heroin use in the community built up rapidly during 1983-4.
user
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This would ensure that they would be firmly established within heroin user networks and not peripheral to them.
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Casual use among cocaine and heroin users has also fallen.
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You do away with the incentive for those addicts to go out and recruit other heroin users .
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Some crack cocaine and heroin users are committing up to 240 burglaries a year to fund their habits.
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Over 90 percent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years.
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In short, even assuming the highest feasible outcidence rate, the number of heroin users in Wirral appeared to be still increasing.
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Would heroin users turn from smoking to injecting?
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Talking to known users During the course of the research programme, a total of 125 heroin users were interviewed.
■ VERB
inject
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The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition.
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When addicted people light up cigarettes, or inject heroin , they satisfy a powerful immediate craving.
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The accused was guilty when he injected heroin into his friend.
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Murray, he alleged, then had gone to the bothy next door where he had injected three men with heroin .
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He is alleged to have assaulted five named men at Kenway Tyres, Bridge of Don, by injecting them with heroin .
take
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They take more heroin ... and more.
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Meanwhile, Kurt repeatedly and vehemently denied taking heroin .
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But hardly any kids had taken hard drugs like heroin and cocaine.
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He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals.
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Four years ago, his sister Margaret died after taking a heroin overdose.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a heroin addict
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alcohol thus resembles opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin , all of which target the endorphin system.
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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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In this sense heroin is a real problem.
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Now the PoliceFoundation is recommending that Ecstasy should no longer be treated as a class-Adrug alongside heroin and cocaine.
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Our use of this metaphor is not intended to imply that heroin use is a physical disease with viral or organic origins.
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The movie is daring in its unsentimental view of the heroin lifestyle.
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The purity of heroin on the streets has increased more than four times.
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We are quick to warn our children about the dangers of alcohol, marijuana, heroin and cocaine.