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nonaddict (plural nonaddicts)

1. One who is not an addict.
   • 1971 March 19, Richard Severo, “Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed”, in The New York Times‎:

     But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death.

   • 2000 June 24, Michael Massing, “Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly”, in The New York Times‎:

     What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.

   • 2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:

     Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).

   • 2011 August 1, Richard A. Friedman, “Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?”, in The New York Times‎:

     Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has shown in several brain-imaging studies that people addicted to such drugs as cocaine, heroin and alcohol have fewer dopamine receptors in the brain’s reward pathways than nonaddicts.