pillheads

Hooked on tablets

Pillheads is slang for people who abuse pills, typically prescription medications like opioids, benzodiazepines, or amphetamines.

The term is mildly disparaging, suggesting habitual users whose lives revolve around obtaining and consuming pills: A bunch of pillheads hanging around the pharmacy.

Compare *crackhead*, *pothead*.

drug-users

addicts

People with compulsions

users · fiends · dependents · downers · uppers · tweakers

subculture

rave

Enthusiastic praise or nightlong dance

  • clubOrganization with membership
  • sceneDramatic unit or locale
  • partyGathering for celebration

recreational · underground · counterculture · EDM · dealer · stash · connect · hookup · scripts · rolling

Categories
Opposites
sobriety/substance use status

pillheadsteetotalers

Those avoiding all alcohol

abstainers · clean · non-users · recovering addicts · dry

relationship to prescription medications

pillheadsdrug-free

Without illicit substances

mental state/sobriety

pillheadsclear-headed

Able to think rationally

straight · clean · lucid

Family

pillhead

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Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13