heroin addiction
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈhɛroʊɪn əˈdɪkʃən/
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adicción a la heroína
- Treatment programs aim to help those suffering from heroin addiction rebuild their lives and reduce harm.
- heroin addiction treatment
So basically I've been struggling with painkiller and heroin addiction for life.
- So basically I've been struggling with painkiller and heroin addiction for life.
- Synanon was dealing with heroin, with people fighting heroin addiction.
- There was a, you know, a handful of things that led me to that, that point of heroin addiction.
- So this person was just very heavily like, you know, drugged up, plus had a very bad heroin addiction.
- So once I tackled my heroin addiction with the booba doll, I was never going to take crack without heroin.
Examples
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Most currently available treatments for heroin addiction are based on physiological tendencies related to tolerance, habituation, and withdrawal.
Academic text (2005) -
Music producer with a history of heroin addiction.
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What more could a heroin addiction have done to this young man?
Fiction book (1998) -
Heroin addiction may explain your actions, but it does not excuse them.
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And all the more inspiring because he had just recovered from heroin addiction.
Academic text (2007) -
The Detroit-area woman is 37 and has battled alcohol and heroin addiction.
Academic text (2017) -
I'm also a blessed lady that's survived an 18-year heroin addiction.
Blog text (3) -
Beginning in the 1950s, such writings attested to the central importance of heroin addiction in the life of urban America and in ethnic ghettos.
Academic text (2009) -
NTA was focused on heroin because, in the early 1970s, serious drug abuse was universally equated with heroin addiction.
Academic text (2009) -
The task for these new clinics was seen as twofold: to provide appropriate treatment to drug addicts and to contain the spread of heroin addiction by continuing to supply this drug in minimum quantities where necessary.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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4.1
A strong harmful need to keep using a drug or activity even when you cannot stop
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3.4
A long-lasting problem where someone cannot stop using drugs even though it harms them
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6.0
A state of needing a drug or alcohol to feel normal
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5.5
A strong need to keep taking drugs or alcohol to feel normal
A strong need to keep using the drug heroin
A strong need to use heroin or morphine that is very hard to stop
A state of being unable to stop using drugs or alcohol because you feel you need them
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a strong and harmful dependence on heroin' is directly compositional from 'heroin' (the drug) + 'addiction' (compulsive dependence); the noun‑noun combination simply specifies the substance involved. This pattern (addiction to X / X addiction) is common cross‑linguistically and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Heroin addiction is simply the drug heroin plus the word addiction, which means being unable to stop using something. Picture the drug like a rope that keeps pulling a person back — that's why the phrase means a harmful, strong 'dependence' on heroin.