drug
IPA: drˈʌg
noun
- (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
- Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
- Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
- (obsolete) A drudge.
- (Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore. [(chiefly US, Canada) Synonym of pharmacy, especially a small standalone general store which includes a pharmacy.]
verb
- (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
- (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
- (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
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Examples of "drug" in Sentences
- Drug overdose can kill people.
- The drug therefore prevents both morbidity and transmission.
- Huxley wrote critically of the effects of drugs of complacency.
- If a drug is approved and fails disastrously the FDA is blamed.
- There is no antiviral drug effective against the canine distemper virus.
- The effects of new hypnotic drugs in rats trained to discriminate ethanol.
- He suffered from a paranoid psychosis brought on by the effects of the drugs.
- Pharmacology is the study of the effects of drugs, pharmacy is their creation.
- In both trials, the arrhythmic drugs were less effective than the alternative.
- Both of these drugs have the effect of producing unconsciousness or relaxation.
- This is an indirect effect of the drug, not strychnine or any other adulterant.
- The term drug that gets used in this debate is part of the problem because it is meaningless.
- If a drug is a bona fide public safety risk (like crystal meth) and some policy is demonstrated to reduce that risk then by all means.
- The term drug-resistant TB, or DR-TB is used to describe those strains of TB which show resistance to one or more of the common first-line drugs.
- Many panel members said they wanted to see more safety data before voting to approve the drug rather than facing potential questions after the drug is approved.
- In the cases where mere possession of a drug (say marijuana) as opposed to dealing in a drug is a misdemeanour rather than a felony then things get yet more difficult.
- Officials usually avoid even the term "drug cartels," and instead refer to them as "organized crime," perhaps more accurate now that much of the gangs' income comes from extortion and kidnapping.
- The term drug discovery tools usually refers to high-content screening (HCS) and analysis and is composed of those applications that require sufficient levels of sample throughput, whereby complex cellular events and phenotypes can be studied.
- Researchers analyzed how addictive a drug is and how it harms the human body, in addition to other criteria like environmental damage caused by the drug, its role in breaking up families and its economic costs, such as health care, social services, and prison.
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