drugs

[Drug]

A drug is a medicine. Before you travel to India, your doctor may prescribe a drug to protect you from getting malaria.

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To drudge; to toil laboriously.

Noun
a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

Verb
administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"

Verb
use recreational drugs


v. i.
To drudge; to toil laboriously.

n.
A drudge (?).

n.
Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.

n.
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

v. i.
To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

v. t.
To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.

v. t.
To tincture with something offensive or injurious.

v. t.
To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.


Drug

Drug , v. i. [See 1st Drudge.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.

Drug

Drug, n. A drudge (?). Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).

Drug

Drug, n. [F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.] 1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
Whence merchants bring
Their spicy drugs. Milton. 2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding.
And virtue shall a drug become.

Drug

Drug, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drugged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.] [Cf. F. droguer.] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.

Drug

Drug, v. t. 1. To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles.
Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it.
2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws.
3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.

To drudge; to toil laboriously.

A drudge (?).

Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.

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Usage Examples

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

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Other Usage Examples

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

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