on the needle

on the needle
   addicted to illegal narcotics taken by self-injection
   The needle is the hypodermic syringe. Whence also the punning needlework, such addiction:
    Was this talcum powder loyalty, I wondered; did they go in for this type of needlework as well? (Rushdie, 1995 — the sisters described were not seamstresses)

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