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Definition of a "junkie"

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I've heard a lot of different definitions of that word - I used to think it was just a drug user, then I heard people say it was a heroin addict, and now I just came across a website that said it was any sort of drug addict. I've also heard it when referring to someone who's been completely consumed by drugs. Thoughts?

P.S. I hate that word though. It's so degrading. I'm just curious what you consider a junkie to be.
 
I consider a junkie to be someone who has no limits and will go to any length to get high, where there's just no obstacle that they won't overcome or try to overcome in order to get high.

If they have no clean needles, then they'll share needles, and if they have no money, then they'll perform sexual favors if need be, rob, steal, walk over and hurt any and every one to get their fix. It's someone who will tie off and fix up in gas station bathrooms, using toilet water and dirty needles and whatever...

I do believe that the term "junkie" is more specific to heroin-users, but of course not all heroin-users are "junkies."
 
^Yeah I see alot of drug users who tell themselves that heroin / IV users (or needle-users in general) are the only 'real junkies'. This ofcourse to justify their own actions. Ok, IV drug use has higher addiction chances, but if you can use drugs wisely the RoA should not matter. Anyway it all depends on the person. I know people who don't inject/use heroin who would definitely qualify as junkies imo. I don't know any heroin users, so I can't really comment on that from experience. Though I'm sure there are plenty of people who use heroin in a "healthier" fashion (long-term) than others who "only" drink alcohol. It doesn't depend on the drug, or roa. It depends on the person. Higher chance of addiction does have alot to do with drug & roa. But "being a junkie" doesn't. It depends on the person.

To me a junkie is someone who lives from "fix to fix", fiending on where to get drugs or how to get money, etc. and would lie, steal or do worse to obtain some money (f)or drugs. Someone whose life "stops" when they run out, and "restarts" when they get new drugs. Time inbetween is just "waiting for next fix".
And like verso said, people who knowingly disregard serious risks if that means they can get high, like sharing injecting-equipment or taking extremely dangerous and possibly lethal combinations and/or dose(s).
 
verso said:
I do believe that the term "junkie" is more specific to heroin-users, but of course not all heroin-users are "junkies."
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I believe the term was coined from people smoking heroin and other substances off of junk pieces of metal.
 
I've got my own definition of "junkie" that differs from a definition of "addict".

A junkie is an addict who not only feels a constant need to take a drug that he/she is addicted to but also commits crimes to collect money for the drug. Junkies have no conscience and they will even rob a friend and do other bad things just to get money. While addicts are simply people dependent on some drug but they don't run into crime or robbing the closest people to get money for the drug.
 
Renz Envy said:
I believe the term was coined from people smoking heroin and other substances off of junk pieces of metal.
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Actually shortly after opioids were originally prohibited by the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, a culture of illicit heroin users first started to emerge and many would collect what most would consider junk such as scrap metal around the city streets to try to sell and support their habit so people become to pejoratively refer to them as 'junkies'. It was sort of a precursor to addicts and homeless today who collect recyclables to sell. Eventually the term evolved to refer to any heroin addicts and like many drug terms was eventually applied to addicts of other substances.

While many users/addicts feel it is denigrating and reject the term for themselves, many others wear it as a badge of pride and have tried to take the term back much the same as the gay community has done with the term 'queer'.
 
i think there is a very fine line between 'addict' & 'junkie'

a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not always a square...

i think a junkie is someone who will simply do whatever it takes to obtain their drugs (lying, stealing, etc.) but also someone who will use their drugs in unsafe ways (includes but not limited to IV users). imo don't think that word 'junkie' is necessarily degrading & i don't think that being a junkie makes them any less of a human being... it is just a word that society used to classify the severity of one's problem.

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I am/was a junkie and I never shot up.

But I did almost every fucked up thing imaginable to get drugs (robbed family, robbed strangers, lied, cheated and stole). Surprisingly I never offered sex for drugs but I'm sure if there was someone out there who woulda gave me free opanas to fuck me in the ass I woulda did that too.
 
A junkie was me when I was addicted to oxycontin. I lied, stole, didn't get a fuck about people not even my family, put people through so much shit.... Burned bridges, sold drugs (lol cops everything I say on the internet is a lie duh) and did a lot more things... Now I use heroin and some other drugs but its still controlled. I don't lie (well I do sometimes) but I don't do any of the other shit and I realized that drugs were not the only important thing in my life.
 
^ agreed. I was a junkie to oxycontin even tho I never shot up either. I would do everything it took to obtain it. Like others said I lied, cheated, stole, robbed, burned literally EVERY bridge I had. It was bad, & a very dark time in my life. I'm grateful that I was able to snap out of it like you, xstayfadedx.

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DooMMooD said:
I am/was a junkie and I never shot up.

But I did almost every fucked up thing imaginable to get drugs (robbed family, robbed strangers, lied, cheated and stole). Surprisingly I never offered sex for drugs but I'm sure if there was someone out there who woulda gave me free opanas to fuck me in the ass I woulda did that too.
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Yeah it's definitely possible for one to become a junkie and not shoot up, but I do believe that the stereotypical junkie is one who shoots up...

I knew a kid who came into some money, quite a lot of money, after collecting on the settlement he was awarded for some car accident when he was a kid.

He began to deal dope, as he could now afford to buy stacks at a time from his guy and then sell the bags at an inflated price, being that we all live in the 'burbs and have no dealers of our own.

His girlfriend was okay with their drug-dealing and their using (she was already into pills) but had one stipulation: no shooting up.

They sniffed their dope, but make no mistake, man, they were junkies. If they had played it straight and not been such junkies, then they would never have run out of money; but that's what happened, they ran out of money and they very quickly began beating all their customers.

I'll never know for sure without asking him, and I don't talk to him anymore (or her), but I have to believe that they were using something like maybe four or five grams a day between the two of them. I remember meeting him in a parking lot one time, and I guess it's where he used to hang out for an hour or two each day, well it looked like a damn ticker-tape parade... but it wasn't ticker-tape, it was all his empty bags all over the parking lot.

I remember him getting out of the car and trying to pick them all up... it was nuts lol
 
^Shit, that sucks. It's a bit sad that some people think they're still all right/ in control so long as they're not shooting up.
 
Cane2theLeft said:
Actually shortly after opioids were originally prohibited by the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, a culture of illicit heroin users first started to emerge and many would collect what most would consider junk such as scrap metal around the city streets to try to sell and support their habit so people become to pejoratively refer to them as 'junkies'. It was sort of a precursor to addicts and homeless today who collect recyclables to sell. Eventually the term evolved to refer to any heroin addicts and like many drug terms was eventually applied to addicts of other substances.

While many users/addicts feel it is denigrating and reject the term for themselves, many others wear it as a badge of pride and have tried to take the term back much the same as the gay community has done with the term 'queer'.
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Makes sense as well. That metal does make a pretty penny when you're desperate...
 
Pagey said:
^Shit, that sucks. It's a bit sad that some people think they're still all right/ in control so long as they're not shooting up.
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Yeah it was absurd, and three or four grams between the two of them is a low estimate...

He would pick up a stack (ten bundles/grams) each and every day and sometimes twice a day; make no mistake, he moved that product, but there's just no way that his customers were taking all of those bundles off his hands.

I'd watch him take out a bundle, empty out all the bags onto a mirror, split the pile in two and take his line before passing it to his girlfriend, and these were fat bags, too... probably on point at about .1
 
verso said:
I consider a junkie to be someone who has no limits and will go to any length to get high, where there's just no obstacle that they won't overcome or try to overcome in order to get high.

If they have no clean needles, then they'll share needles, and if they have no money, then they'll perform sexual favors if need be, rob, steal, walk over and hurt any and every one to get their fix. It's someone who will tie off and fix up in gas station bathrooms, using toilet water and dirty needles and whatever...

I do believe that the term "junkie" is more specific to heroin-users, but of course not all heroin-users are "junkies."
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Kind of my thoughts on the idea of a junkie.
 
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I once knew a girl who had no needle and borrowed one from her friend whom, at the time, she believed had hepatitis c. I mean, that's a junkie, when you'll stick a needle in your arm that someone with hep c just used, and you don't care...
 
verso said:
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I once knew a girl who had no needle and borrowed one from her friend whom, at the time, she believed had hepatitis c. I mean, that's a junkie, when you'll stick a needle in your arm that someone with hep c just used, and you don't care...
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Okay now that's messed up.
You certainly have lots of fun stories, verso =D
 
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