fiending
n.— «Almost all can tell tales of confrontations with irate Johns or fellow street people who began “fiending” (striking out in a furious need for more drugs).» —“On Streets To Nowhere” by James Kindall Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) Jan. 21, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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