Green’s Dictionary of Slang

addicted (usu. to a narcotic drug).

1929		E. Booth Stealing Through Life 282: I tell the damn little fool that using so much stuff will make a bum of him, but Billie – that’s the twist he’s with – got him hooked.
1932		V.F. Nelson Prison Days and Nights 177: Once you’re ‘hooked’ – once the drug really gets into your blood – you’re ‘hooked’ for life.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 99: A man that’s hooked on hop will never lay the first pill on a beginner.
1959		E. De Roo Young Wolves 110: You know you can get hooked on that stuff.
1960		C. Cooper Jr Scene (1996) 8: I’m clean. I’ll never get hooked again.
1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 72: ‘[T]hese kids that think they’re hooked’.
1963		‘Geoffrey Tolhurst’ Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 114: ‘Don’t you know what it is like — to be hooked on heroin?’.
1977		Daily Mirror 18 Aug. 13: He was already ‘hooked’ – I watched the pills, the capsules and the injections take their heavy toll.
1987		Masters of Ceremony ‘Cracked Out’ 🎵 It’s the type of drug that will have you hooked / And the side effects of crack are always overlooked.
1989		M. Amis London Fields 304: There’s the adventure, and the love interest, and I have to admit I’m hooked.
1998		Observer Rev. 11 Oct. 3: Hooked on smack, Lanre descended into the very life of squalor and despair.
2000		W. Shaw Westsiders 318: It was in danger of closing when Jack became hooked on crack.
2010		K. Richards Life 259: It was never in the front of my mind until I was truly hooked.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 38: Look at me - hooked through the bag on Oxy, and still in pain, because it doesnt work for shit any more.