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Abstract
People who take drugs for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. The drugs may be legal or illegal, but their use often results in adverse medical, legal, or social consequences for the users.
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24 entry terms
- Drug Abusers
- Abuser, Drug
- Abusers, Drug
- Drug Abuser
- Drug User
- User, Drug
- Users, Drug
- Drug Addicts
- IV Drug Users
- Intravenous Drug Users
- People Who Inject Drugs
- Addict, Drug
- Addicts, Drug
- Drug Addict
- Drug User, IV
- Drug User, Intravenous
- Drug Users, IV
- Drug Users, Intravenous
- IV Drug User
- Intravenous Drug User
- User, IV Drug
- User, Intravenous Drug
- Users, IV Drug
- Users, Intravenous Drug
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6 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.
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Indexing Annotation
for drug users as persons only; for the disorder, use SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS
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History Note
2009
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Drug Users. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D055030. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D055030
- Drug Users. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_user
- Drug Users. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5308931