nonaddict

plural nonaddicts

1. One who is not an addict.

   But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death.

   1971 March 19, Richard Severo, “Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2024

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   What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.

   2000 June 24, Michael Massing, “Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2022

   Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).

   2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2021

   Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has shown in several brain-imaging studies that people addicted to such drugs as cocaine, heroin and alcohol have fewer dopamine receptors in the brain’s reward pathways than nonaddicts.

   2011 August 1, Richard A. Friedman, “Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2021