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HEROIN ADDICTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heroin addiction mean?
• HEROIN ADDICTION (noun)
The noun HEROIN ADDICTION has 1 sense:
1. an addiction to heroin
Familiarity information: HEROIN ADDICTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An addiction to heroin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("heroin addiction" is a kind of...):
drug addiction; white plague (an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug))
Context examples
It is a narcotic antagonist that is effective orally, longer lasting and more potent than naloxone, and has been proposed for the treatment of heroin addiction.
(Naltrexone hydrochloride, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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