Synonyms for drug
drʌgdrug

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1. drugverb

   a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

2. drug, doseverb

   administer a drug to

   "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"

   Synonyms:
   do drugs, dose

3. drug, do drugsverb

   use recreational drugs

   Synonyms:
   do drugs, dose

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1. • Medicate
   • Medicine

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1. drugnoun

   Synonyms:
   medicine, physic, remedy

2. drugnoun

   Synonyms:
   unsalable article

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1. drugnoun

   Associated words:
   pharmacology, pharmacologist, pharmacy, pharmacognosis, pharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacopœoea, pharmacography, spatula, mortar, pestle, cribration, pharmacopolist, pharmaceutical

2. drugverb

   Synonyms:
   deaden, dull, stupefy, surfeit, hocus

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1. List of paraphrases for "drug":

   drugs, medication, narcotics, pharmaceutical, medicines, medicine, medications, narcotic, anti-drug, medicament, dope, drug-drug, pharmaceuticals, pharmacare, medicinal, medicated, substances, substance, addiction, meds, detoxification

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1. Luis Cresencio Sandoval:

   There was a change in consumption, there was a change in drug markets due to the ease of producing synthetic drugs.

2. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call:

   This is a drug that kills indiscriminately, addiction itself is a disease that changes the chemistry of the brain, and it changes it irreparably. … So now, we may be facing not only overdose deaths — what we're doing is we're creating a mental health and substance abuse problem in a generation that will have to be fought hard for the entire lifetime of that individual and the entire lifetime of a generation, so allowing the circumstances to make it so much easier for this to occur is tragic.

3. Ingeborg Oswald:

   I definitely think it needs to be monitored somehow. It's a hallucinogenic drug. ... They call it a medicine, but it is a hallucinogenic drug, obviously there's side effects to everything. Anyone can have an adverse reaction to something. You don't leave someone alone with a hallucinogenic drug (in their system).

4. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere.

5. James Krellenstein:

   We should all take a step back and ask : How did we allow this to happen ? this is what happens when a company intentionally delays the development of an H.I.V. drug for monopolistic purposes.