Drug (disambiguation)
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Drug may refer to:
- Drug is defined as 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.
- List of drugs
- Medication
- Approved drug, drug approval by the Food and Drugs Administration in the United States
- Antiviral drug
- Antiretroviral drug
- Psychoactive drug, chemical substance used to alter behavior and perception for many differing reasons.
- Recreational drug use
- Performance enhancing drug
- Drug abuse
- Hard and soft drugs
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the United Kingdom act under which substances defined as drugs are listed and controlled
- A drug or demon in ancient Vedic Hinduism, from the Vedic Sanskrit root druh = "be hostile"
- The Drûg or Drúedain, a race of Men from Middle-earth in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
- "drug" is sometimes used as a non-standard past tense and past participle of the verb drag.
See also: Illegal drug trade