junkie
(also junky) /ˈdʒʌŋ·ki/ n [C] slangDefinition
› a person who regularly takes and is dependent on illegal drugs, esp. heroin › humorous A junkie is also a person who enjoys or is interested in a particular activity to an extreme: If you want to follow politics, basically you have to become a talk-show junkie.
(Definition of junkie n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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