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Drug (disambiguation)


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.

Other meanings

  • 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.

ca:Droga de:Droge (Begriffsklärung) eo:Narkotaĵo simple:Drug

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