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drug-addicted

adj. addicted to a drug [syn: dependent, dependant, hooked, strung-out]

Usage examples of "drug-addicted".

Her damaged, drug-addicted body yearned for relief and in its thrashings it directed her actions.

The point is to give the drug-addicted criminal a fighting chance to succeed in society upon release.

That's a sensible and fair formula for giving drug-addicted criminals a leg up on leading a productive life.

But he didn’t object to his unmarried, drug-addicted brother spending time with her?

They were a lot easier to relate to than the motley group of drug-addicted prostitutes who had tragically crossed Joel’s treacherous path.

What first caught her eye was a young, drug-addicted street prostitute who was squatting at the corner of the Enge Kerksteeg.

One piece of Sickert was kind to his drug-addicted, weak brother Bernhard, while another piece thought nothing of appearing at the Red Cross hospital to sketch soldiers suffering and dying, and then ask for their uniforms since they wouldn't be needing them anymore.

He was young, handsome and had been with Angelo since he, too, was a child, abandoned in a tenement hallway by a drug-addicted mother on her last fix.

In July of the same year, a group of drug-addicted doctors started to experiment on animals and humans, testing pain thresholds, exchanging organs, creating monstrosities.

According to her, the students and faculty at Bass were a pack of freaks and losers, and the parents of the Bass kids were snobby self-indulgent artsy-fartsy crypto-Heritagist poseurs trying to buy themselves the illusion that their neurotic drug-addicted promiscuous bulimic dyslexic brats had one single grain of brains or talent.