Drug user

Drug user
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User refers to a person who uses drugs either legally or illegally. The term user is typically used more to refer to illegal drug use by a person who is often part of a subculture of recreational drug use. Drug users are often referred to as "heads", depending on the drug used, i.e., pothead, acidhead, cokehead, hophead, dopehead, hashhead, crackhead, methhead, etc. .

A drug user may or may not also be a drug abuser, and may or may not have one or more drug addictions.

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