drug

1. any synthetic, semisynthetic, or natural chemical substance used in the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of disease, or for other medical reasons

2. a chemical substance, esp a narcotic, taken for the pleasant effects it produces

3. drug on the market a commodity available in excess of the demands of the market

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drug

[drəg]

(pharmacology)

Any substance used internally or externally as a medicine for the treatment, cure, or prevention of a disease.

A narcotic preparation.

Drug

principle of evil. [Zoroastrianism: Leach, 325]

See: Evil

Drugs

(dreams)

The interpretation of drugs in your dreams depends on the relationship you have with drugs in your daily life and whether they are doctor prescribed or not. If you are a drug user, then the drugs are an extension of what you normally do, and you need to look at the other details of your dream to get a good interpretation. However, if you use drugs rarely or never, then this dream could represent a need to get well, to escape from daily stress, and a desire to get quick relief. The drugs could be suggesting a need for healing and getting in balance. Your unconscious mind may be suggesting outrageous things in hopes that you get the message to “have fun, dream dreams, and get out of your own head!” Please keep in mind that the purpose of dreams is to raise our consciousness and to assist us in having better lives. The message in the dream about drug use is most likely not encouraging you to use drugs but it may represent a need to feel better or get better.

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absent), and (b) current state policy regarding soft and hard drugs (see Table 1).

Views regarding national policies about illicit drugs: a pilot study among people living in Bogota

Overall, hard drug use was always reported as a problem.

Drug use and conflict in inner-city African-American relationships in the 2000s

By 2008, the social malaise had taken huge tolls on the women folk because they were subjected by traffickers to the dual roles of victims of human trafficking and as couriers for the movement of hard drugs across international borders.

Victims and couriers: females and hard drugs trafficking business in Nigeria, 1980-2008

Bivariate analysis revealed decreased odds of discordance for black males in main partnerships and for males meeting casual partners at street locations, and showed increased odds for hard drug users in main partnerships; however, these relationships did not retain significance after adjustment for potential confounders.

Among female adolescents, STD history is associated with demographically or socially dissimilar partnering

Self-reported data on exposure to violence and use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drugs were collected from 3,380 teenagers living in three countries.

Violence exposure raises rates of substance abuse. (International Self-Reported Data)

Step-wise multiple regression analyses were subsequently performed to test whether friends' use, after-school job, academic performance, and extracurricular activity explained a significant proportion of the variance in self-reported frequency of gateway and hard drug use.

The influence of peer affiliation and student activities on adolescent drug involvement

Ms Short, MP for Birmingham Ladywood, said: "I'm not saying it is a good thing to take hard drugs.

SHORT: GIVE JUNKIES HEROIN ON NHS; 'Free drugs will prevent crime'

"In fact, now the police can invest in more serious crimes, for example, in dismantling ecstacy laboratories and hard drug dealing."

HEALTH CHIEF: I SMOKED POT; PROFESSOR SPEAKS AT DEBATE ON CANNABIS

We also believe that imprisoning people for possession of hard drugs is wrong.

A Sane Drug Policy

The intent of the Dutch policy of tolerating retail cannabis sales, formalized in amendments made to the Opium Act in 1976, was to separate the markets for drugs presenting "unacceptable risks" referred to as "hard drugs" (including heroin, cocaine, speed, LSD, and MDMA) from those "soft drugs" presenting "acceptable risks," which category has been exclusively restricted to marijuana and hashish (Leuw, l991).

Keeping off, stepping on and stepping off: the steppingstone theory reevaluated in the context of the Dutch cannabis experience

'Instead of perpetuating the hard drug culture, we need to lift young people out of it.'

Clare Short calls for drugs on NHS

It is the fastest growing drug in the US and has overtaken heroin ecstasy and cocaine as the most widely used hard drug.

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