Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hard drugs
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dealing in drugs, particularly hard drugs, is not an activity condoned by any of the community organisations on the estate.
▪ He accepted that legalisation would not necessarily greatly increase addiction to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
▪ Is it fair to equate alcohol with hard drugs?
▪ 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.
▪ She warned that even the first injection of hard drugs can kill.
▪ The linking of alcohol and hard drugs confuses health education messages.
▪ Tobacco and alcohol are far more harmful than the so-called hard drugs, heroin and cocaine.
Usage examples of "hard drugs".
If we had not found out your father was sending you a generous allowance, we would have assumed that you had got the money pushing drugs, hard drugs, for you won't get much for your bloody, stupid mushrooms.
It's a halfway house and counselling centre for teenagers trying to get off hard drugs.
He did hard drugs and drinking for the last thirty-five years and I saw the last Stones tour and he looks pretty good.
I knew right then and there that religion and hard drugs just don't mix.
A real lot But she never could keep off the hard drugs, she was hooked.
Buying a substantial piece of property with money made through the dealing of hard drugs?
One thing that struck me, in that article, was the amount of money involved in the hard drugs.