heroinomania

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Etymology

From heroin +‎ -o- +‎ -mania.

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Noun

heroinomania (uncountable)

  1. Heroin addiction.
    • 1905, Report on the Advancements in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Therapeutics, page 100:
      He points out, however, that to obviate inurement care should be exercised to exclude insufficient doses or such as might give rise to 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 more recent times, however, heroin has appeared, with the resultant heroinomania.
    • 1973 July 12, Roy H. Hart, “Is Man Entitled To Drugs?”, in The State, 82nd year, number 193, Columbia, S.C., page 5-A:
      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-

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