drug user
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- noun
- /drʌɡ ˈjuːzər/
- NSFW
:
consumidor de drogas
- Furthermore, arrests for drug use disrupt the lives of drug users, their families, and their neighbors.
- injection drug users
- intravenous drug users
- Hispanic drug users
So one thing I will say is every drug user is not a prostitute.
- So one thing I will say is every drug user is not a prostitute.
- I mean, the victims of the drug war are the drug users, right?
- Make people safe, protect people that are drug users.
- Almost all of them are just regular drug users.
- He asked me if I had recently done serious rounds of chemotherapy or if I was a drug user because of the way my brain looks.
- Someone has apparently contacted child services in our area and informed them that we are drug users.
- I grew up across the street from a heavy drug user and she devoured her family just by her drug use.
- The reason that we continue to have these stereotypes about who drug users are is because of the ongoing racism of our society.
- If, if one or both people are big drinkers or drug users, that's usually a good indication that the marriage is going to lead to divorce.
- Injecting drug users, commercial sex workers, poor people.
- Make people safe, protects people that are drug users.
- And they go on or often not, you know, to become like drug users, alcohol abuse, or they see themselves as worthless.
- Because, you know, the, as you know, drug users in general have faced this sort of prejudice.
- And so they're keeping the prisons full and they're, they're, they're painting black people as criminals and thugs and drug users.
- They're like the the the drug users come back from like I see bail officers scooting him like to like a cell on my wing, isn't it?
- Well, number one, stop, stop the mass incarceration and fucking petty drug users, OK?
Examples
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Considering all this, how do the parents of adolescent drug users explain the situation?
Academic text (2008) -
One charity they supported was Back to Life, which maintained halfway houses for drug users in several major cities.
Fiction book (2002) -
I mean, the victims of the drug war are the drug users, right?
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No drug users, no drug trade.
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Until very recently, most drug users have been treated in terms of medical or criminal categories.
Academic text (1993) -
I am a casual drug user.
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I was what they call a recreational drug user.
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Given the relatively young age of the injection drug users in our study, these figures are disturbing.
Academic text (2011) -
Earlier perceptions that all drug users were addicts had resulted in a policy emphasizing treatment.
Academic text (1992) -
She has always been open about being a casual drug user during her college years.
Synonyms
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7.5
A person who regularly takes illegal or addictive drugs
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9.2
A person who regularly uses illegal drugs
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A person who often uses illegal substances
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5.7
A person who regularly uses drugs in a harmful or illegal way
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A person who often uses illegal drugs
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who uses drugs' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'drug' (substance) with 'user' (person who uses something); the noun+noun pattern 'X user' regularly denotes a person who uses X in English and many other languages. A B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
Drug user is a simple phrase made from drug and user. A user means 'one who uses' and a drug is a substance someone takes, so the phrase literally means a person who 'uses drugs'.