heroinomania

Noun

heroinomania (uncountable)

1. Heroin addiction.
   • He points out, however, that to obviate inurement care should be exercised to exclude insufficient doses or such as might give rise to heroinomania.1905, Report on the Advancements in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Therapeutics, page 100
   • In more recent times, however, heroin has appeared, with the resultant 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

   Synonyms:

   heroinism