What is "opium addict"

Usage examples of "opium addict".

The old neighborhoods of Shanghai, Feedless or with overhead Feeds kludged in on bamboo stilts, seemed frighteningly inert, like an opium addict squatting in the middle of a frenetic downtown street, blowing a reed of sweet smoke out between his teeth, staring into some ancient dream that all the bustling pedestrians had banished to unfrequented parts of their minds.

His name was Win, and he was already an opium addict, smoking with the serenity of an eighty-year-old, which was eerie in someone so young.

But how the devil was I to know that her maidservant was an opium addict and that her ladyship had obtained supplies of the drug from Atiyah?

Well, at least you are not an opium addict, as I had thought, for a while.

You mean you really didn't know that our glorious leader has become an opium addict?

Harry, ex-convict and Purple gangster, was an opium addict who'd promised to kick his narcotics habit once and for all.

He counts in his ancestry the poet Emily Dickinson, the newspaperman Horace Greeley, and the infamous murderer and opium addict Amasa Greenough.

Now, according to rumor, El Murid was nothing but a fat, decrepit opium addict commanding a few bandits in the south desert hills of Hammad al Nakir.