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heroinomania en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From heroin + -o- + -mania.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Heroin addiction.
    • In more recent times, however, heroin has appeared, with the resultant heroinomania. 1919 January 19, “Drug-Taking. An Insidious and Increasing Danger. Cocaine and Morphia”, in The Observer, 128th year, number 6,661, London, page 3:
    • In recent years Western society has witnessed an outburst of toxicomanias: heroin toxicomania or heroinomania, Cannabis (marijuana and hashish) toxicomania, and most recently methaqualone (Quaalude, Sopors) tox- 1973 July 12, Roy H. Hart, “Is Man Entitled To Drugs?”, in The State, 82nd year, number 193, Columbia, S.C., page 5-A:
    • He points out, however, that to obviate inurement care should be exercised to exclude insufficient doses or such as might give rise to heroinomania. 1905, Report on the Advancements in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Therapeutics, page 100:

Relateds

heroinomaniac

Synonyms

heroinism