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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
druggie
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But druggies usually claim to be a liberal bunch, intelligent enough to value breaking the law in moderation.
▪ Her speech is badly slurred, and the tendency is to dismiss her as a drunk or a druggie.
▪ She was nicked in a filthy squat with a load of known druggies.
▪ The druggies had all gone to Coney Island for the day.
▪ The empty upstairs became the haunt of druggies and our small children would sometimes carry in their needles.
▪ They would get the druggies in.
▪ Trippy constantly sniffed, a bad case of druggie pneumonia as it's known on the street.
▪ What with the runaways and the young druggies ....
Wiktionary
druggie

n. (context pejorative slang English) A drug addict or abuser.

Usage examples of "druggie".

Port Ticonderoga, despite a druggie or two in the parks, despite the occasional break-in, despite the occasional body found floating around in the eddies.

The Suttons and a few English teachers combined to make me care just enough—if you didn't point it out to me—not to become a druggie or a pothead or spend the free periods outside in the smoking lounge hiding doobies in my boots.

If she was a drunk or on drugs or loony tunes, she was a responsible drunk or druggie or loony.