n. when unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group, become the best way to describe someone.
An individual to spite of having a chemical dependency, is able to maintain a career, family setting, and functioning semi normally into society. Many of the times these individuals require their drugs in order to function in society.
Yes I'm strung out I fix many times a day but I live in a nice house I have a loving wife and my children never want for anything I am the most functional addict there is.