Noun
an addiction to heroin
Source: WordNetAddictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. Irvine Welsh
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it's bad, you've never been so miserable, but when it's good you've never been so high. Dan Savage