misuser
- noun
- /ˈmɪsˌjuːzər/
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mal usuario
- So how can practitioners best work with clients who want to end their addiction when they are in a relationship with another misuser?
- substance misusers
Examples
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More often than not, substance misusers are surrounded by a network of other users, but when that includes a partner, problems are multiplied.
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May 6, 2007 Miami Herald columnist Ana Menendez on the FCAT test: "Florida is a serial misuser of test scores.
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Particular issues have affected older and mental health service users, as well as substance misusers, for whom personal budget take-up rates last year were 10%, 5%, and 2% respectively.
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In response to the widespread concern about AIDS, HIV, and the injecting drug misuser, the ACMD set up an AIDS and Drug Misuse Working Group.
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The evidence demonstrated that the Ghanaian mental health service has no specialist services reserved for vulnerable populations, including children, adolescents, the elderly, people with disabilities, as well as forensic and substance misusers.
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The key aims were to attract seropositive drug misusers into treatment where they could be encouraged to stop using injecting equipment and move away from injecting toward oral use (Strang, 1998).
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The rehabilitation center focuses on helping misusers of prescription drugs overcome their dependency.
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As a misuser of online resources, she often shared misleading information with her peers.
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Many misusers of alcohol struggle to find the support they need in their recovery journey.
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Morphology
Etymology
The word misuser is made from mis- meaning 'wrong', as in mistake, and user from 'use', so a misuser is someone who uses something in a wrong or harmful way.