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Drug users mistakenly freed in talks (5,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

speed freaks

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'drug users' is the definition.
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'mistakenly freed in talks' is the wordplay.
'mistakenly' is an anagram indicator.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'talks' becomes 'speaks' ('speak' can be a synonym of 'talk').
'freed' is an anagram of 'eedfr'.
'eedfr' put within 'speaks' is 'SPEED FREAKS'.

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