I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a banned substance/drug (=a drug that people competing in a sport are not allowed to take because it improves their performance)
a drug test (=to find out if someone has taken drugs)
▪ Two athletes were banned from competing after failing drug tests.
a miracle drug (=a very effective drug that cures a serious disease)
▪ Why is this new miracle drug so expensive?
a murder/burglary/drugs etc charge
▪ He appeared in court on fraud charges.
▪ Robins was in jail awaiting trial on drugs charges.
a patient receives treatment/a drug
▪ Twelve of these patients were receiving treatment with a new drug.
a prescription drug/medicine
▪ Not everyone can afford the cost of prescription drugs.
a sex/drug/terrorist etc offence
▪ Thirty-three people were charged with drug offences.
abuse alcohol/drugs
▪ The proportion of drinkers who abuse alcohol is actually quite small.
alcohol/drug abuse (=the practice of drinking too much or taking illegal drugs)
antiretroviral drug
arms/oil/drug etc shipment
▪ an illegal arms shipment
combination drug therapies
▪ new combination drug therapies
controlled drugs (=a drug that is illegal to have without permission from a doctor)
▪ a police search for controlled drugs
crime/drug etc kingpin
▪ a mafia kingpin
designer drug
drug addict
drug baron
drug barons
▪ drug barons
drug bust
▪ a drug bust
drug czar
drug dealer
drug rehabilitation
drug runner
drug takers
▪ treatment for drug takers
drug/alcohol misuse
▪ Children who begin smoking when young are at greater risk from drugs misuse.
drug/alcohol use
▪ Drug use among teenage boys is on the increase.
drug/heroin/alcohol etc addiction
drug/heroin/morphine etc addict
▪ a recovering heroin addict
drugs/fraud/vice etc squad
▪ A controlled explosion was carried out by bomb squad officers.
drugs/gambling/smuggling etc racket
▪ Police believe he is involved in an international smuggling racket.
fertility drug
gateway drug
generic drugs
got busted for drugs
▪ Davis got busted for drugs.
hard drugs
illegal drugs
▪ She was found guilty of possession of illegal drugs.
illicit drugs
▪ illicit drugs
lifesaving surgery/treatment/drugs etc
▪ The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
peddling drugs
▪ They were accused of peddling drugs.
soft drug
take drugs (=take illegal drugs)
▪ Most teenagers start taking drugs through boredom.
the drug scene (=taking illegal drugs)
▪ He regrets getting caught up in the drug scene.
the drugs/slave trade
▪ the country’s thriving drugs trade
truth drug
turn to drink/crime/drugs etc
▪ addicts who turn to crime to finance their habit
under the influence of alcohol/drink/drugs etc
▪ He was accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
wonder drug
▪ a new wonder drug
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
▪ Standouts include Douglas's anti-drugs czar whose daughter is a crackhead.
▪ The drugs were recovered Feb. 4 by the cutter Morgenthau during an anti-drug patrol, Clayton said.
▪ The last DeKalb sheriff set up an anti-drug taskforce, to the impotent fury of the county police.
▪ The judgment does not affect Pfizer's patent for sildenafil citrate, the main ingredient of the anti-impotence drug Viagra.
▪ She didn't smoke or drink and was staunchly anti-drugs.
generic
▪ More generic drugs are now used, and stocks are much more carefully controlled.
▪ In New York, one of the big ones is generic drugs.
▪ Campaigners argue that poor countries faced with a health emergency have a right under international trade legislation to buy generic drugs.
▪ The drug maker said Congress decided not to grant generic drug makers the right to market their products during the transition.
▪ Prices of generic drugs have soared by 45 % over the past 15 months.
▪ It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs.
▪ The drugs in these areas were not at the frontier of medical science and acceptable generic drugs existed.
hard
▪ Dealing in drugs, particularly hard drugs, is not an activity condoned by any of the community organisations on the estate.
▪ No topless dancers, no hard drugs, no trial.
▪ Our reporters uncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solvent abuse and hard drugs.
▪ Tobacco and alcohol are far more harmful than the so-called hard drugs, heroin and cocaine.
▪ I was really hard on drugs.
▪ Is it fair to equate alcohol with hard drugs?
▪ He accepted that legalisation would not necessarily greatly increase addiction to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
▪ The linking of alcohol and hard drugs confuses health education messages.
illegal
▪ It is the criminal activity surrounding the supply of illegal drugs that we should really worry about.
▪ The depositions touch on rumors of illegal drug use, extramarital affairs and petty squabbling.
▪ In August 1988, he was arrested for possessing illegal drug paraphernalia - syringes.
▪ Federal authorities billed the indictment of the drug supplier as a new way to attack illegal drug production.
▪ The court heard the killing followed a row over money from the sale of illegal drugs.
▪ After four hours of banging rave tunes and a whole consignment of illegal drugs, they're in the mood to party.
▪ Similarly, the much greater availability of illegal drugs has led to a phenomenal growth in drug offences.
▪ Cannabis, the most widely used illegal drug in Britain, is not physically addictive either.
illicit
▪ The declared goal of Washington's policy is to staunch the flow of illicit drugs.
▪ As a health officer I am opposed to the use of illicit drugs.
▪ This study primarily related to stress and to the use of alcohol and illicit drugs.
▪ Some will argue that all illicit drugs are too dangerous to legalize.
▪ They had taken away his clothes and his luggage, no doubt to search for illicit drugs.
▪ One-third of eighth-graders report the use of illicit drugs, including inhalants.
▪ One-third of girls and almost two-fifths of boys admitted having used illicit drugs.
▪ Also, watch your intake of alcohol and illicit drugs like marijuana.
intravenous
▪ Case 2 was a male intravenous drug user, 32, and seropositive since 1986.
▪ His execution was to have been the first in California using intravenous drugs.
▪ Today, some research suggests that 50 percent of the city's intravenous drug users have been infected.
▪ Most HIV-positive intravenous drug users are also infected by hepatitis C virus.
▪ Conclusions - Seroconversion to HIV-1 among intravenous drug misusers is associated with bacterial pneumonia.
▪ Most reports describe primary HIV-1 infection among groups other than misusers of intravenous drugs.
▪ Intake of potentially hepatotoxic drugs, intravenous drug addiction and previous blood transfusions were ruled out in all patients.
new
▪ The firm has 20 new drugs in its pipeline.
▪ With a combination of psychotherapy and new psychiatric drugs, between 80 percent and 90 percent of depressed patients get relief.
▪ They apply as much to the testing of new drugs by the pharmaceutical companies as to that of more mundane products. 1.
▪ Medicine has generally regarded the placebo effect as a nuisance: it does make research on new medical drugs very difficult.
▪ Mifepristone is one of a range of new drugs which are anti-hormones.
▪ He turned out to be a bone expert who suggested a new drug for Pauline, 36.
▪ I had been told that the new drug had side-effects.
▪ So basic research and the discovery of new drugs for mental disorder are almost inseparable.
recreational
▪ There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs.
▪ In fact, caffeine is arguably the safest recreational drug.
▪ The project will look at recreational drug use and examine the implications for agencies working with young people.
▪ And yet, despite its safety and mildness relative to other recreational drugs, caffeine still unquestionably alters brain function.
▪ Also: no caffeine, nicotine, alcohol or recreational drugs.
▪ In many ways, caffeine is in a different league from other recreational drugs.
▪ In the concluding chapter, Jonnes takes issue with those who favor decriminalization or legalization of recreational drugs.
▪ The only other recreational drug used in this way is nicotine, which is also seldom used for outright intoxication.
■ NOUN
abuse
▪ Errol Flynn's drug abuse was only revealed after his death.
▪ The center also will offer referrals for drug abuse counseling if requested.
▪ Over the years of football authorities have become obsessed with rooting out drug abuse in the game.
▪ Alcohol and tobacco accelerate epidemics, such as tuberculosis and drug abuse.
▪ The shock statistics reveal a sharp rise in drug abuse of all kinds among teenagers over the past two years.
▪ The state alcohol and drug abuse agency was put into conservatorship last year after state officials discovered that money had been misspent.
▪ Yates had a history of drug abuse for which she received treatment.
▪ Now he has called on other schools in the town to unite in a crusade against violence and drug abuse.
addict
▪ The Grammy and MusiCares Foundation, which also helps alcoholics and drug addicts, will benefit and the song could raise millions.
▪ Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.
▪ The prison reform group says one problem is a lack of treatment for drug addicts in jail.
▪ The people look furtive, like drug addicts, as they take them out in stacks of four or five.
▪ Unfortunately, much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts.
▪ Here they began a small home for alcoholics and drug addicts.
▪ What is the welfare of the drug addict, under the influence of the drug?
▪ The four persons who were beaten and burned not only were homeless, but were reported by police to be drug addicts.
addiction
▪ It is often thought that drug addiction is a failure of will-power and is evidence of a weak will or inadequate personality.
▪ Many are afflicted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression.
▪ That included his descent into drug addiction and his relationship with his father, the Duke of Marlborough.
▪ Furthermore, because alcohol and other mood-altering chemicals are cross-addictive, we shall probably always have drug addiction as well.
▪ Some one kind, some one whose life -- and thus hers -- is not ruled by the demons of drug addiction and alcoholism.
▪ The results are clear to see: divorce, child and wife abuse, alcoholism and drug addiction.
▪ They cared little for themselves; they were in and out of hospital for drug addiction and overdoses and abortions.
▪ Nor were muggings, attacks on old ladies and children, and drug addiction.
cartel
▪ If Paez is extradited to the United States, he could potentially be a source of important information on the drug cartel.
▪ Meanwhile, the Medellin drug cartel has been largely dismantled and its leader, Pablo Escobar, was killed.
▪ Harvey Weinig Convicted of laundering $ 19m for the Cali drug cartel.
company
▪ And what of the drug companies?
▪ Global marketing; big drugs companies try to ease the pain of more competition by selling products worldwide.
▪ But other drugs companies have new products which they hope will do this.
▪ If it was a drug company, they rely pretty heavily on impressive animal test data to put the product over.
▪ But we can be reasonably sure that the drug company will not guarantee the potency of the sample beyond its sell-by date.
▪ The minister can make a decision that a drug is too expensive and the drug companies have no right to defend themselves.
overdose
▪ Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose.
▪ They stamp out graffiti, quash drug deals, bust carjacking rings, rescue drug overdose victims, even prevent suicides.
▪ Finally, the patient himself asked that the doctors kill him: they did so - through a drugs overdose.
▪ One boy died in a mysterious fire, another of a drug overdose.
▪ Soon after that, she ended up in hospital after a drug overdose.
▪ A full inquiry has been launched to find out how Newall, 27, was able to take a drugs overdose.
▪ Since 1980 the number of drug overdose deaths has increased by 540 %.
▪ He was working with the Woody Herman band at the time of his death following a drug overdose.
prescription
▪ And yes, there is a prescription drug for that-Revia, from Du Pont.
▪ The Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced a program aimed at providing consumers with better information about prescription drugs.
▪ It hopes to sell Tagamet, now a prescription drug, this way.
▪ The autopsy would eventually show that Mom had taken three different prescription drugs.
▪ HMOs are fleeing Arizona's rural counties, leaving seniors with rising prescription drug bills and no coverage.
▪ So do Gore's hopes of securing a universal prescription drug benefit for the elderly.
▪ Most senior citizens also lack coverage for prescription drugs and dental care, which are not covered by Medicare.
▪ Within the pharmaceutical division, prescription drug sales rose 9 percent in local currencies.
problem
▪ Dennis Hopper's life reflects Hollywood's drug problem over the past three decades.
▪ The authorities of New College have also begun investigating the extent of the drugs problem there.
▪ What I did not know at the time was that his drinking problem stemmed from his drug problem.
▪ Low numbers might indicate that there is no drug problem.
▪ About three years ago, I wrote a column about Daryl Strawberry and his ongoing drug problem.
▪ Need help with a drug problem?
▪ There was a flip side to this drug problem as well.
squad
▪ It was last August that drug squad officers raided a barn at Chalford near Stroud.
▪ Melvin Blizzard, a drug squad supervisor.
▪ August 20: Cannabis plants worth £2,500 seized by drugs squad officers at a house in the Waterside area of Londonderry.
▪ On January 1, 1982, Coetzee was transferred too the drugs squad.
▪ Attempts to control drug use, through the formation of drug squads, helped to amplify it.
▪ Detective Sergeant Kenneth Simpson of the Strathclyde police's drugs squad knows the type of man he is looking for.
test
▪ Under the governing body's initiative, some karate competitions now include a random drug test.
▪ Subsequent drug tests revealed the boys had used cocaine, police said.
▪ But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test.
▪ The drug tests have been done so far only in fruit flies.
▪ What they are actually selling is drug tests for employees.
▪ Her disputed drug test was taken in Tempe unlike the Reynolds' test, administered outside the United States.
▪ The second point is that you may be asked to take a drug test at any squad session.
▪ Later the same year, a pair of runners refused to submit to random drug tests.
therapy
▪ Finally, such medical care will generally involve invasive drug therapy.
▪ Thus, it seems most reasonable to PostPone drug therapy of primary hyperuricemia until clinical manifestations occur.
▪ Programmed ventricular stimulation not only helps to guide the selection of antiarrhythmic drug therapy but also provides important prognostic information.
▪ Disseminated histoplasmosis can be treated effectively if the diagnosis is made quickly and anti-fungal drug therapy is started early.
▪ The results of this approach are that some individuals may be committed to lifelong drug therapy which they do not need.
▪ Were he alive today, Tchaikovsky would be a candidate for psychiatric counseling and drug therapy.
▪ Without drug therapy she risks developing liver cancer, which would make a transplant her only hope of survival.
▪ The outlook for pharmacist initiation and modification of drug therapy.
trade
▪ Expansion of the international drug trade, exploiting the inner-urban under-class.
▪ Consider the school principal who discovers students wearing beepers to stay in contact with their superiors in the drug trade.
▪ He's up to his black eyeballs in the drug trade.
▪ Experts disagree about the extent of the expansion of Tupac Amaru and Sendero Luminoso into the drug trade.
▪ In view of this, the drugs trade looks like a Godsend.
▪ Residents fled the downtown, businesses boarded up and gangs and drug trade became commonplace.
▪ Meanwhile Customs and Excise is celebrating what it believes to be a significant blow to the drugs trade.
▪ For their part, neither Carrillo nor Guzman are considered pacifists within the drug trade.
trafficker
▪ This creates an offence of assisting a drug trafficker to retain the benefits of his or her proceeds.
▪ Extradition is a terrifying prospect for drug traffickers, who fear hard time in U.S. prisons.
▪ In 1987 he had led a campaign for the extradition of drug traffickers.
▪ In addition, all charges against self-confessed drug traffickers would in future be heard by the same judge.
trafficking
▪ This new power to presume guilt of unspecified offences was advertised as a unique response to the unique evil of drug trafficking.
▪ The provisions on drug trafficking streamline the confiscation procedure.
▪ Linked to the Mafia he was also behind counterfeit currency scams and drug trafficking.
▪ The Assembly also agreed on closer co-operation on the environment, on regional security and in the fight against drug trafficking.
▪ They will vigorously pursue their policies to combat drug trafficking and misuse of drugs, nationally and internationally.
▪ He also suggested seeking technical and military assistance from abroad to deal with such problems as drug trafficking.
▪ Co-operation on drug trafficking was also discussed.
▪ A number of prisoners detained in connection with alleged drug trafficking had been held without trial since 1991.
treatment
▪ Supervised clinical training is provided in cytotoxic drug treatment and radiation therapy.
▪ The publication also is distributed to youth clubs, clinics, school libraries, drug treatment centers and churches across the country.
▪ Evaluation of the cost effectiveness of drug treatment is in its infancy, and health economics can inform the debate.
▪ Moreover, few patients, if any, have their cholesterol decreased to very low levels with drug treatment.
▪ Tranquilliser Dependence Many local drug treatment centres provide services to meet the particular needs of people dependent on drugs such as tranquillisers.
▪ The duration of such drug treatment is an individual judgment.
▪ They then put the infected cells back into the babies without giving any drug treatment.
▪ A law to give counties funds to develop drug treatment on demand.
use
▪ There is a theory that even if drug testing is flawed, it at least deters drug use.
▪ Wavy Gravy, romancer of a suburban rock culture where drug use almost never results in mandatory sentencing.
▪ But this trendy new board game is littered with connotations of drug use.
▪ Fifteen were later expelled for drug use.
▪ All of their lives are reduced to their drug use.
▪ The incident began early Sunday when San Jose police began chasing the man for resisting arrest and drug use.
▪ Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking.
▪ From a public health perspective, these are very effective programs that do not encourage drug use.
user
▪ Many of these predisposing factors are observed more often among drug users than among homosexual men.
▪ So too with the cost of mental health care and of rehabilitation programs for drug users and for alcoholics.
▪ The police had rounded up a circle of drug users and suppliers.
▪ Most HIV-positive intravenous drug users are also infected by hepatitis C virus.
▪ The strongly increased incidence among drug users who seroconverted is probably due to the temporary immunological depression associated with seroconversion.
▪ One out of the 18 drug users who seroconverted suffered from oesophageal candidiasis at the time of seroconversion.
▪ Pneumonia was the clinical symptom most strongly associated with seroconversion among drug users.
▪ He says it's vital that drug users have access to supplies of clean syringes.
war
▪ Nor, by the way, will it win the drugs war.
▪ Under the law, the United States suspends all assistance programs to any country not certified as cooperating in the drug war.
▪ So why does the drug war keep growing?
▪ Before he was reincarnated as Mr Virtue, Bennett commanded the drug war in the Bush administration.
▪ The drug war is a skirmish, the leftist gangs an irritant.
▪ The incident has cast light on the creeping privatisation of the drug war.
■ VERB
control
▪ But some of the patients will still have a tremor, even though their stiffness is satisfactorily controlled by the drug.
▪ It can also be relieved or controlled by drugs and in severe cases, surgery.
▪ Stubbornness: Individual willpower, the absolute determination to control drinking or drug use, is exactly what keeps the disease going.
▪ Attempts to control drug use, through the formation of drug squads, helped to amplify it.
deal
▪ You are suspected of dealing in drugs, Lizzy.
▪ It is considered particularly effective in dealing with certain drug abusers.
▪ They are alleged to have dealt in drugs in the Milton Keynes and Aylesbury areas and were involved in car crime.
▪ The younger two kids are still doing fine, the older is in jail for dealing drugs.
▪ Time allowed 08:27 I dealt drugs in jail.
▪ If some one dealt drugs out of the apartment next door, residents could complain-but the system rarely responded.
involve
▪ They say they have only tenuous evidence Gary might have been involved in drugs.
▪ The plane crash involves Dave with drug dealers, killers and federal agents, all of whom threaten his peace and family.
▪ And if so, which organism is involved, and what drug sensitivity do you have?
▪ Now the military, especially the air force, is becoming much more involved in drug interdiction.
▪ Was he involved in the drugs ring Adam was still convinced was operating in the club?
▪ None of our kids have been involved with drugs, but they had lots of suggestions.
▪ The brothers who beat him up are involved in the drugs racket.
▪ No one in his family was involved with drugs and he had never been arrested.
prescribe
▪ The clinic responded with two more alarm clocks before prescribing drugs.
▪ Some rape victims might be lucky enough to encounter an emergency room doctor who will prescribe the drugs.
▪ It follows that careful monitoring of patients for their susceptibility to depression before prescribing mood-altering drugs would be a wise precaution.
▪ Therefore, I initiate disulfiram treatment by prescribing the drug for the patient to self-administer.
▪ But the nursing staff, understandably enough, wanted to check his identity before prescribing the drugs.
▪ They are examined by a physician who works for Nutri / System and will prescribe the diet drugs.
▪ In many cases it is particularly important to discuss the reasons for not prescribing psychotropic drugs.
▪ However, when the doctors prescribe a drug, it is evidently science.
sell
▪ You got ta sell the drugs to make the money.
▪ He would like to see it sold through local drug stores.
▪ They have broken our by laws by selling drugs and drink, camping and using vehicles.
▪ A lot of them are selling drugs or on drugs or in jail.
▪ Danny Gardiner said he sold drugs to Chalky White ... but he had nothing to do with his death.
▪ The Population Council also announced it had set up a new company, Advances for Choice, to sell the drug.
▪ What they are actually selling is drug tests for employees.
take
▪ Some, as you know, seek revenge - they riot, they take drugs and generally make damned nuisances of themselves.
▪ He also emphasizes that men considering taking the drug first discuss it with their partner.
▪ Once you've taken the drug, your next decision could be influenced by that drug.
▪ About 3 1 / 2 hours after taking the drug, Head expelled the embryo, she said.
▪ Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect.
▪ Here's what you have to do to get the celluloid treatment. Take lots of drugs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
banking/drug/health etc czar
▪ Barry R.. McCaffrey, White House drug czar.
▪ Our drug czar watches in impotence as shooting wars between drug gangs erupt in city after city.
▪ Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground.
▪ Standouts include Douglas's anti-drugs czar whose daughter is a crackhead.
▪ When drug traffic escalates, they appoint a national drug czar.
drug/alcohol dependence
▪ His father says that David accepts the sentence, and is getting treatment for his drug dependence.
▪ Most people make the change from occasional social drinking to alcohol dependence gradually.
▪ Studies of twins and of alcohol-dependent patients point to an inherited vulnerability to alcohol dependence, too.
▪ The higher figures came for such easy-to-call labels as bulimia and alcohol and drug dependence.
▪ You can get treatment for drug dependence, mostly as an outpatient.
drug/dope/cocaine etc fiend
▪ It was bad to see him that way, angry and shivering a little like a dope fiend.
▪ We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends.
miracle cure/drug
▪ I can call myself lucky because streptomycin, the miracle drug, is newly available.
▪ If so, tax cuts would be the miracle cure.
▪ Last week medical research came up with another miracle drug.
▪ Salesmen sell miracle cures for all kinds of diseases.
▪ The miracle cure is when the patient helped cure himself..
▪ The alternatives have very seldom been tested in any scientific way, and their promises of miracle cures are usually anecdotal.
▪ The fear of chemicals can also delay new miracle drugs from entering the market.
▪ Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for thinning hair but there are some very good treatments around.
performance-enhancing drug/product/supplement etc
▪ Seven of the 12 winners tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
run drugs/guns
under the influence (of alcohol/drink/drugs etc)
▪ Cowan suggests that the strength of the excitatory interactions increases relative to that of the inhibitory interactions under the influence of the drug.
▪ Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire.
▪ The motor velocity increases under the influence of the positive torque and the equilibrium position is attained with maximum velocity.
▪ The roads, under the influence of the rain, were becoming shocking.
▪ The weather became cooler under the influences of cold breezes from the frozen north, observed my master.
▪ Today I write this, happily, under the influence of a drug.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a new campaign to warn teens about the danger of drugs
▪ Dewey said that legalizing marijuana would encourage people to experiment with hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin.
▪ Four teenagers were arrested for selling drugs.
▪ Many researchers think that the drug may help prevent prostate cancer.
▪ Morphine is a very powerful drug.
▪ One disadvantage of the drug is that it is very expensive.
▪ Seven out of ten teenagers said they had tried soft drugs.
▪ She has been treated for alcohol and drug abuse.
▪ The drugs I take for hay fever make me feel very drowsy.
▪ The agency's efforts to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the United States has largely failed.
▪ The article says that Ware tried to commit suicide by combining prescription drugs and alcohol.
▪ The New Jersey drug maker will begin marketing its new anti-balding medication in April.
▪ The organization tries to deal with the widespread problems of drug addiction and alcoholism.
▪ Thompson was arrested for selling drugs in the fall of 1992.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot of work will have to be done before human beings start taking drugs in dissolving glass.
▪ Alcohol and drug misusers may fear approaching statutory agencies for help, especially if they are parents.
▪ Back then, because of drugs, I lost everything I had.
▪ Conclusions - Seroconversion to HIV-1 among intravenous drug misusers is associated with bacterial pneumonia.
▪ D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.
▪ Despite being a rich drug dealer, he never misses a class.
▪ In facing the challenge of drug abuse, the media have never been less monolithic.
▪ One of the early ones was dinitrophenol, the first synthetic drug used for weight reduction.
II.verbPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
banking/drug/health etc czar
▪ Barry R.. McCaffrey, White House drug czar.
▪ Our drug czar watches in impotence as shooting wars between drug gangs erupt in city after city.
▪ Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground.
▪ Standouts include Douglas's anti-drugs czar whose daughter is a crackhead.
▪ When drug traffic escalates, they appoint a national drug czar.
drug/alcohol dependence
▪ His father says that David accepts the sentence, and is getting treatment for his drug dependence.
▪ Most people make the change from occasional social drinking to alcohol dependence gradually.
▪ Studies of twins and of alcohol-dependent patients point to an inherited vulnerability to alcohol dependence, too.
▪ The higher figures came for such easy-to-call labels as bulimia and alcohol and drug dependence.
▪ You can get treatment for drug dependence, mostly as an outpatient.
drug/dope/cocaine etc fiend
▪ It was bad to see him that way, angry and shivering a little like a dope fiend.
▪ We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends.
drugged/doped up to the eyeballs
miracle cure/drug
▪ I can call myself lucky because streptomycin, the miracle drug, is newly available.
▪ If so, tax cuts would be the miracle cure.
▪ Last week medical research came up with another miracle drug.
▪ Salesmen sell miracle cures for all kinds of diseases.
▪ The miracle cure is when the patient helped cure himself..
▪ The alternatives have very seldom been tested in any scientific way, and their promises of miracle cures are usually anecdotal.
▪ The fear of chemicals can also delay new miracle drugs from entering the market.
▪ Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for thinning hair but there are some very good treatments around.
performance-enhancing drug/product/supplement etc
▪ Seven of the 12 winners tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
under the influence (of alcohol/drink/drugs etc)
▪ Cowan suggests that the strength of the excitatory interactions increases relative to that of the inhibitory interactions under the influence of the drug.
▪ Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire.
▪ The motor velocity increases under the influence of the positive torque and the equilibrium position is attained with maximum velocity.
▪ The roads, under the influence of the rain, were becoming shocking.
▪ The weather became cooler under the influences of cold breezes from the frozen north, observed my master.
▪ Today I write this, happily, under the influence of a drug.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Collins says she was drugged and then raped on their first date.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ We can't all be permanently drugged.