"fiend": in anyone's active vocab?

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:42 PM -0500 11/9/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
>--
>
>When I was a teen-ager in the '50's, "sex fiend" was already pretty much a
>joking term used among the guys, being assigned to whoever was bragging the
>most about the extent to which he was supposedly getting over. And I vaguely
>remember a title that was "[Something] The Foul Fiend," also from those
>days. That's about it for me WRT active use.
>

seems like a direct precursor of the "dope fiend" use from the
mid-late 60's I was reporting on earlier

LH