monster
n.— «As a heroin user, she never tracked how much she injected each day or how much money “the monster,” as she calls her addiction, demanded she raise.» —“Managing her ‘monster’” by Tom Mooney Providence Journal (R.I.) Sept. 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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