He was like a fanatic, a desperate addict, and he lost all inhibition.

Adam and Paul are childhood friends who as adults have withered into two hopeless, desperate addicts, tied together by habit and necessity.

The ingenuity of the desperate addict, or the greedy pusher, knows no limits.

Drug addiction drives everything from street crime to child abuse to AIDS, which spreads when desperate addicts either share needles or infect unwitting lovers and spouses.

She encompasses coy teenager and amorous woman, heartbroken lover and spiteful victim, party girl and desperate addict.

Prostitution has increased among addicts desperate for drug money, he said.

He'll probably tell her bedtime stories about his illustrious past selling crack-cocaine to desperate addicts.

She encompasses coy teenager and amorous woman, heartbroken lover and spiteful victim, party girl and desperate addict, all with sly timing and implacable assurance.

The buildings were in terrible shape, so much of a magnet for crack users and dealers that some residents defended themselves from desperate addicts by chasing them off the premises with baseball bats.

Like addicts desperate for a high, they've declared meth the new crack, which was once called the new heroin (that title now belongs to OxyContin).