drug addiction

Questions about drug addiction

What does drug addiction mean?

drug addiction means "an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)".

What is another word for drug addiction?

Close synonyms include white plague. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drug addiction a common word?

drug addiction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.