Word Finder - drug

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A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

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Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

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A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

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Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted.

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2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug

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

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To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

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She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.

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To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

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She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

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To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

Would he try to drug them as he had Elisabeth?

Was Giddon involved in a drug ring?

When there's a major drug buy, nobody trusts anyone else—especially face to face.

She had been making out with a man who might be involved in drug trafficking.

Thereafter the drug must be discontinued.

Sean was supposed to serve her dessert laced with a sedative, so they could drug her and take her back to the station for questioning.

As I said, we've drug this engagement out too long.

The vehicle has a Wall Drug bumper sticker and an emblem from a Kansas campground in the back window.

She pushed away from him and drug in deeply of the cold night air.

If nephritis be present, it may be seriously aggravated, and the drug must therefore be withheld.

Had Allen been here to make a drug deal with Giddon?

Only one thing came to mind – a drug deal.

The kidnapper was the child's mother, a drug addict, who no longer had custody and tried to spirit her daughter away.

The drug wore off, leaving her in a dark fog, hot and sweating with a different kind of headache, the kind she got after taking a lot of Dr. Mallard's drugs.

As for Martha's father, Patsy's comments as recorded on one statement she grudgingly gave the authorities listed him as "some john I did for a couple of bucks drug money."

We were on a drug bust and someone tipped off the bad guys.

She wandered down stream to the place where they had drug huge slabs of stone to make a walkway across the creek.

Its makers had not conceived bupropion hydrochloride as a drug to help people quit smoking.

He could have forced her into the car... could have drug her into the woods.

If Giddon was involved in a drug ring, Tammy needed a way out.

Her legs felt like posts, but she drug one foot in front of another until the ground under her feet seemed to change.

He retreated to the corner and sobbed while she fought the effects of the drug.

Tucking it under her coat, she limped to the cabinet and drug out a few towels.

An assistant District Attorney had called about prosecuting a felony drug possession, but the second note was upsetting.

Can you believe he drug out that box of cancer sticks while we were discussing the sale of natural foods?

He was, according to his enemies, the son of an apothecary, his father being in fact a doctor of medicine of respectable family, who kept a small drug store as part of the necessary outfit of a country practitioner.

The properties of podophyllin resin vary with the reaction of the tissue with which it is in contact; where this is acid the drug is inert, the picro-podophyllin being precipitated.

The drug is not used in modern therapeutics.

The drug is absorbed through the unbroken skin - a very valuable property in the treatment of such conditions as an incipient whitlow.

The sole but extremely important use of this drug is as a specific for gout.

The drug has the properties common to all substances that contain a volatile oil.

Medicated soaps are made by adding the drug to either hard soap or curd soap in the desired proportions.

To interdict the importation of the drug altogether, as is done in Japan, was the step advocated by Japanese public opinion.

Whatever drug of this group be taken, the product absorbed by the blood is almost entirely sodium salicylate.

If the drug be now discontinued, they will return in over 90% of cases.

The most powerful is digitoxin C34H54011, an extremely poisonous and cumulative drug, insoluble in water.

The drug has no external action.

In pregnant women the drug can result in ambiguous genitalia in any male fetus.

Usually, on diagnosis, high doses of the drug heparin are injected.

Not that she would know a drug lord from a prince.

The breathing becomes shallow, the drug killing, like nearly all neurotic poisons (alcohol, morphia, prussic acid, &c.), by paralysis of the respiratory centre, and the patient dying in a state of coma.

As a specific for gout colchicum was early employed by the Arabs; and the preparation known as eau medicinale, much resorted to in the 18th century for the cure of gout, owes its therapeutic virtues to colchicum; but general attention was first directed by Sir Everard Home to the use of the drug in gout.

This Strophanthus is not remarkable for its rubber - which is mere bird lime - but for the powerful poison of its seeds, often used for poisoning arrows, but of late much in use as a drug for treating diseases of the heart.

But, influenced by medical views and by the almost insuperable difficulty of enforcing any drastic import veto in the face of Formosa's large communications by junk with China, the Japanese finally adopted the middle course of licensing the preparation and sale of the drug, and limiting its use to persons in receipt of medical sanction.

The passing of the Food and Drug Acts (1875-1899) in England, and the existence of similar adulteration acts in other countries, have occasioned great progress in the analysis of foods, drugs, &c. For further information on this branch of analytical chemistry, see Adulteration.

The rapid excretion by the kidneys is one of the cardinal conditions of safety, and also necessitates the very frequent administration of the drug.

The drug is not a true specific, as quinine is for malaria, since it rarely, if ever, prevents the cardiac damage usually done by rheumatic fever; but it entirely removes the agonizing pain, shortly after its administration, and, an hour or two later, brings down the temperature to normal.

The drug must be at once withheld if haemorrhages (subcutaneous, retinal, &c.) are observed.

The extreme pain and rapid swelling of the vocal cords - with threatened obstruction to the respiration - that characterize acute laryngitis may often be relieved by the sedative action of this drug upon the circulation.

In order to reduce the pulse to its normal rate in these cases, without at the same time lessening the power of the heart, the drug must be given in doses of about two minims of the tincture every halfhour and then every hour until the pulse falls to the normal rate.