dope fiend

plural dope fiends · alternative dopefiend

1. derogatoryslangA person who abuses drugs.

   That's the trouble with ya New York dope fiends. Ya got a rotten attitude.

   2000, Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Laughing guard

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   Of course you know how prohibition works in many places and how the law is beaten. The dope fiends seem to be doing the same thing with this law.

   1914, Arthur B[enjamin] Reeve, “The Toxin of Death”, in The Dream Doctor (The Craig Kennedy Series), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 163

   Synonyms: addict, abuser, fiend, slave, wastoid