0 a person who cannot stop doing or using something, especially something harmful: --
1 a person who is unable to stop doing or using something --
Apparently, many injured soldiers had been treated with morphine in order to reduce the pain caused by war injuries, resulting in significant numbers of military men addicted to the drug.
The highest relative risk of death was 860 for female drug addicts in age group 15-24 compared to females of the same age in the general population.
In contrast, by medicalizing addiction we could undercut the market for illicit drugs, channel addicts away from the criminal subculture, and rehabilitate at least some addicts.
The results obtained thus indicate that the younger groups of drug addicts are at special risk of early death and are in special need of care and closer follow-up.
Hepatitis or complications of viral hepatitis played no role as cause of death among the drug addicts, and infections as a whole were also responsible for very few deaths.
The strongest correlate of reluctance to prescribe opioids was concern about the patient becoming addicted, followed by concern about a long-term commitment with prescribing opioids, and worry about physical dependence.
We might reasonably suspect that the general public, if consulted confidentially would also give low priority to ethnic minorities, not to mention drug addicts and illegal immigrants.
The heterogeneity of psychiatric disorders in treated opiate addicts.
