Drug (disambiguation)
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A drug is any chemical substance other than a food or device that affects the function of living things. Drugs can be used to treat illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
Drug(s) may also refer to:
- Drugs (journal), a peer-reviewed medical journal
- Drug (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
- Graciano, another wine grape with Drug as a synonym
- Drug Island, an island in Alaska, U.S.
- Drug (India), a variant spelling for Durg or Durg district
- D.R.U.G.S.(Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows), an American post-hardcore band previously known as D.R.U.G.S.
- DRUGS, a funk musical group founded by Michael "Clip" Payne
- Drûg, a term for a member of the Drúedain, a Middle-earth race in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Drug, a name for a demon in ancient Vedic Hinduism, from the Vedic Sanskrit root druh ("to be hostile")
- Drug/druh (друг), the word for "friend" in Slavic languages, prominently used (as a Nadsat jargon) in A Clockwork Orange
- Drug, also drugg or droge, a floating device roped to a harpoon used in ancient whaling to exhaust the whale
- Drug, In some English dialects, a non-standard verb past form for "dragged"
See also
- Antiretroviral drug
- Antiviral drug
- Approved drug, drug approval by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States
- Drug abuse
- Hard and soft drugs
- Illegal drug trade
- Inverse benefit law
- Legal drugs
- List of drugs
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the United Kingdom act under which substances defined as drugs are listed and controlled
- Pharmaceutical drug
- Psychoactive drug, chemical substance used to alter behavior and perception for many differing reasons
- Recreational drug use
- Performance-enhancing drug
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