drug-abuser

See also: drug abuser

English

Noun

drug-abuser (plural drug-abusers)

1. Alternative form of drug abuser.
   • 1965 April 19, Theodore Berland, “The Goofball Menace—I: Pep Pills’ Worst Side Effects Are Violence, Crime, Death”, in Evening Journal, volume 33, number 92, Wilmington, Del., page 2, column 3:

     Last year, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of doctors from Boston City Hospital reported that a survey showed “there may be far more drug-abusers and addicts in the general population than has ever been suspected.”

   • 1965 September 14, Wendy Rogers, “Shadow of Addiction: ‘Pill Baby’ Gets His Kicks In Medicine Cabinet Raid”, in The Miami Herald, page 3-BR, column 4:

     Even agents of the Florida State Bureau of Narcotics are not entirely sure where drug-abusers get the pills.

   • 2021 June 9, Bob Heleringer, “Can Bill Dieruf end GOP losing streak for Louisville mayor?”, in Courier Journal, volume 153, number 213, Louisville, Ky., page 13A, column 3:

     Working closely with his former colleagues on the council and his nationally-experienced police chief, Rick Sanders, J-town’s Angel program for self-admitted drug-abusers has proven so successful it has been adopted by over 300 cities state-wide.