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1.A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.
- Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.
- In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.
2.A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
- We took drugs and partied all night.
- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
- She used to be a drug addict.
3.Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
- The truth is...eating is my drug. When I am upset, I eat...when I am sad, I eat...when I am happy, I eat.
4.Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
- And virtue shall a drug become.

1.To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
- She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
2.To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
- She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
3.To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

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From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c.