"Don't call drug users Junkies" campaigners say

Daily Mail ^ | 10th January 2018 | Steve Doughty

[HiTech RedNeck]

What, I can’t be a junk-food junkie either?

[Doogle]

OK....junkies and junkettes..

[freedumb2003]

>>What, I can’t be a junk-food junkie either?<<

Good Lord have pity on you.

[GSWarrior]

cannibis, cocaine and heroin. one of these things is not like the other two.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Junkors and junktrices.

[NobleFree]

"Hi, my name is Joe, and I'm a person who has an alcohol use disorder."

[Doogle]

Lajunkies and Lajunkettes

[freedomlover]

I see what you did there!

Suddenly I have hankering for some Fritos Corn Chips, Dr Pepper and an old Moon Pie . . .

[Howie66]

Would they prefer to call them targets of opportunity?

[faithhopecharity]

Orwell is alive and well

[unixfox]

How bout crack whores, will that suffice?

[MagUSNRET]

Just another attempt for these idiots to try to “normalize” that which is ABNORMAL!!!
Call them what they are....Drug Addicts!, Alcoholics, Queers, etc!!

[Jim Robinson]

Haven’t used that word “junkie” for dopers in a long time. It’s kind of old fashioned.

[SpaceBar]

Call them democrats.

[VanDeKoik]

“‘person with non-problematic drug use’”

If you CANT TELL that this person is an addict, then why would this person be self-conscious about the term “junkie”?

Some people can drink and not be a “Drunkard” or “Wino” (does anyone under 39 even use those anymore?), somehow I dont think they are making a fuss.

[cyclotic]

I’ll have to ask my ex-junkie heroin addict friend what he thinks about that.

He’s been counseling and mentoring junkies for 30 years. I suspect junkie works fine for him.

[familyop]

How about dope fiends?

[nopardons]

Addict, addict, addict, addict...A-D-I-C-T !

Junkie, junkie, junkie, junkie...J-U-N-K-I-E !

Doper, doper, doper,doper...D-O-P-E-R !

What...someone held a gun to the heads of these LOSER ADDICTED, DOPER, JUNKIES? They did this to themselves!

Hello 1984 and "NEW SPEAK"/PC! :-(

[familyop]

Juggalos?