A drug user is a person who uses drugs either legally or illegally. The term user is typically employed 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, hophead, crackhead, 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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“He’d been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he’d found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It’s the meat talking, ignore it.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)