The word is PRESCRIPTION, not "script".

If someone is a thief POS and harms other people because of their addiction thats one thing but calling people junkies is pretty F'd up, its a crap term from an uneducated time when addiction was viewed as a character flaw vs a legitimate mental illness. You might sit on a high horse but one day addiction will somehow impact your life, someone you know will suffer from it or maybe they already do and you don't know it or possibly you yourself. Doesn't really matter to me whether you say it or not but it sounds very conceited as if you think you are better than these people.

I'm glad someone said it because I was about to. I would've added in that the people who think otherwise are young and inexperienced in life though :)

Every 'specialized' scene has their own lingo.

Notice, I used the word 'scene'. This is probably not in most people's vocabulary in this context, which only proves my point. There are scenes within scenes, for example, there's something called 'demoscene' when it comes to the whole 'computer scene'.

I think the word 'scene' was used in the sixties and seventies by the hippies.

When you talk about pharma, there are so many 'sub-scenes' there, from lab technicians to doctors of all kinds, it would be a miracle if there weren't 'lingos' or 'new words' invented that most laymen wouldn't understand. The same is true of R/C-scene, graffiti-scene, demoscene, or just plain 'computer nerds'.

If you listened to some hacker enthusiastically explaining something deeply involving, most laymen probably wouldn't understand most of the lingo.

I am sure car mechanics enjoy their lingo just the same way as surgeons or programmers do, it's just the nature of 'specialization'.

Every 'facet of life' that requires it, has its own lingo, so why wouldn't junkies have it, too?

I think a perscription is a complicated, annoying word, and it would be inhuman to expect everyone, epecially junkies and pharma people, to always pronounce it fully and completely. 'Script' seems a perfectly viable way to shorten it, especially since it's not even a 'made-up word' as much as just taking the middle part of the word and using it. It even sounds similar.

Furthermore, the meaning of a 'script' is usually 'a bunch of written text', and isn't that literally what a 'perscription' is, only with a more specific meaning?

I wouldn't see a problem using that. As long as everyone understands what you're talking about, why would it matter, especially in this kind of a 'scene'..

My doctor even tells me he is giving me a "script" for something. I have used the word interchangably all my life

Yeah Rx is the latin term for it but no doctor ever says "I'm going to give you an Rx for something"