heroinher‧o‧in /ˈherəʊɪn $ -roʊ-/ noun [uncountable] 
a heroin addict
WORD ORIGINheroin
Origin:
1800-1900 German, Greek heros ( ➔ HERO); because taking it is said to make people feel heroicEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a heroin addict
- Alcohol thus resembles opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin, all of which target the endorphin system.
- Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first.
- In this sense heroin is a real problem.
- Now the PoliceFoundation is recommending that Ecstasy should no longer be treated as a class-Adrug alongside heroin and cocaine.
- Our use of this metaphor is not intended to imply that heroin use is a physical disease with viral or organic origins.
- The movie is daring in its unsentimental view of the heroin lifestyle.
- The purity of heroin on the streets has increased more than four times.
- We are quick to warn our children about the dangers of alcohol, marijuana, heroin and cocaine.
WORD SETS
acid, nounaddict, nounaddicted, adjectiveaddiction, nounaddictive, adjectiveamphetamine, nounbong, nouncannabis, nounclean, adjectivecocaine, nouncoke, nouncold turkey, nouncontrolled substance, nouncrack, nouncut, verbdeal, verbdealer, noundesigner drug, noundetox, noundetoxification, noundope, noundope, verbdopehead, noundowner, noundrug, noundrug addict, noundrug baron, noundrug czar, noundrug dealer, noundruggie, noundrug rehabilitation, noundrug runner, nounecstasy, nounfix, nounganja, noungear, nounglue-sniffing, noungrass, nounhallucinogen, nounhallucinogenic, adjectivehard, adjectivehard drugs, nounhash, nounhashish, nounhemp, nounheroin, nounhigh, adjectivehigh, nounhippie, nounhit, nounjoint, nounjunkie, nounline, nounLSD, nounmagic mushroom, nounmainline, verbmarijuana, nounmescaline, nounmethadone, nounmule, nounnarc, nounnarcotic, adjectiveneedle, nounOD, verbopiate, nounopium, nounoverdose, nounpeddler, nounpep pill, nounpot, nounpsychedelic, adjectivepush, verbpusher, nounrecovery program, nounreefer, nounrehab, nounroach, nounscore, verbshooting gallery, nounsmack, nounsmoke, nounsniff, verbsnort, verbsnort, nounsnow, nounsoft drug, nounsolvent abuse, nounspeed, nounstash, nounsteroid, nounstoned, adjectivestrung-out, adjectivesubstance abuse, nountab, nountake, verbtrafficking, nountrip, nountrip, verbuse, verbwasted, adjectiveweed, nounwithdrawal, nounwithdrawal symptoms, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a heroin addictCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a recovering heroin addictCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a powerful and illegal drug made from morphinebe on/use/take heroin a heroin addict a recovering heroin addict· Indeed, this model is consistent with the general pattern of known heroin use throughout Deeside.
NOUN· I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.· Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first.· Only with heroin addicts, that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers.· There was this other guy who was either an aging rocker or a heroin addict, or both.· Frankfurt has 10,000 registered heroin addicts.· We know he's a heroin addict.· She was sharing a room with a girl called Anita, an ex heroin addict.
· She gives me antibiotics for my heroin addiction.· A painful bout with heroin addiction eventually led him to a spiritual rebirth.· Ann if over her heroin addiction and working on her compulsion to go shoplifting.· If you can avoid heroin addiction and motorcycle accidents, you might have a swell time.· Many of the pimps, and some of the girls, have been forced into prostitution to feed a deadly heroin addiction.
· We stole twenty-seven handguns from a National Guard armory to feed our heroin habit.
· Indeed, this model is consistent with the general pattern of known heroin use throughout Deeside.· If heroin use proves relatively harmless to all concerned then we should advocate legal reform and controlled availability.· Our use of this metaphor is not intended to imply that heroin use is a physical disease with viral or organic origins.· Nineteen had used only one drug prior to heroin use, principally cannabis, the rest using a variety of drug combinations.· Prior to his imprisonment, his burgling and dealing activities financed their heroin use.· As their heroin use continued, it was generally the case that consumption increased.· Consequently, it was forecast that the prevalence of heroin use might also begin to fall from 1988-9.· Evidence of widespread heroin use in the community built up rapidly during 1983-4.
· This would ensure that they would be firmly established within heroin user networks and not peripheral to them.· Casual use among cocaine and heroin users has also fallen.· You do away with the incentive for those addicts to go out and recruit other heroin users.· Some crack cocaine and heroin users are committing up to 240 burglaries a year to fund their habits.· Over 90 percent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years.· In short, even assuming the highest feasible outcidence rate, the number of heroin users in Wirral appeared to be still increasing.· Would heroin users turn from smoking to injecting?· Talking to known users During the course of the research programme, a total of 125 heroin users were interviewed.
VERB· The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin, instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition.· When addicted people light up cigarettes, or inject heroin, they satisfy a powerful immediate craving.· The accused was guilty when he injected heroin into his friend.· Murray, he alleged, then had gone to the bothy next door where he had injected three men with heroin.· He is alleged to have assaulted five named men at Kenway Tyres, Bridge of Don, by injecting them with heroin.
· They take more heroin ... and more.· Meanwhile, Kurt repeatedly and vehemently denied taking heroin.· But hardly any kids had taken hard drugs like heroin and cocaine.· He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals.· Four years ago, his sister Margaret died after taking a heroin overdose.
a heroin addict