Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a drug user; rarely used by anyone involved with drugs.

1967		P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 116: A funny line went through my head: No stuffee, no druggee; no habit, no junkie.
1974		G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 121: The DS wouldn’t have survived as a plant in with the druggies [...] he lacked that dulled obtuse look which most of them had.
1987		R. Campbell Alice in La-La Land (1999) 123: He and my mother manage a roach hotel filled with winos, druggies and artists.
1991		D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 93: Burnouts, were actually a conglomerate of several cliques — serious druggies, Deadheads, dirtbags, skinheads, metalheads, thrashers, and punks.
1992		R.G. Barratt ‘Law is a Dope’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] They’re all druggies.
1996		P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] Liked a bit of blow himself, he did. Nesta Robert Marley, musical genius and druggie.
1999		Guardian Rev. 13 Aug. 19: Lyrics which depict urban life as the preserve of druggos and drunks.
2005		B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 28: He would have seen her as a drunk, a druggie, a bad mother.
2007		L. Redhead Cherry Pie [ebook] ‘[She] got hitched to some rich druggo, Edwin someone, and inherited the lot when he OD’d on smack’.
2009		P. Temple Truth 50: In this house, who read the broadsheet of record, the druggies or the tidy man.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 46: She was dating some druggie [...] when he got pinched moving horse.
2013		K. Sampson Killing Pool 138: [I] jerk my head towards a little gaggle of druggies who’ve assembled.
2018		Sowetan Live 26 Feb. 🌐 Unemployed youth on verge of losing hope comments I honestly don’t give a crap about the druggies .
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers 83: A couple of sleazy druggies.
2019		C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] She picked it up and turned it round and read the label. Sublimaze. ‘Druggy,’ she grumbled.
2019		C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘We get [...] the druggies and the poor cunts with mental health issues’.
2019		M. Herron Joe Country [ebook] ‘Fuck-ups, basket-cases, druggies and drunks’.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 45: ‘Drunks and druggies seem to like the place’.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1996		P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] It’s the gun that knocked Ronnie Bishop and his druggie doctor mate out.
1998		Observer Rev. 11 Oct. 3: There’s a druggie phrase: ‘Don’t get high on your own supply’.