Drug

“In the future, he says, a focus ⟳ on the hate ⟳ circuit may open ⟳ new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target ⟳ this and other specific circuits in the brain.”

“We took drugs and partied all night.”

“They're on drugs.”

“She used to be a drug addict.”

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take ⟳ hold ⟳.”

“You have ⟳ a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like ⟳ five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try ⟳ them. Just say ⟳ no. Then they try ⟳ pot.”

“The only thing working against the poor Drug Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer ⟳ his simple lesson: Drugs are bad, people who use ⟳ drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer ⟳.”

“Cannabis use ⟳ disorder is usually defined as a problematic use ⟳ of the drug: developing tolerance to weed; using cannabis in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended; being unable to reduce ⟳ use ⟳; spending a lot of time obtaining, using or recovering from the effects of cannabis; giving up important activities and obligations in favor of cannabis; and continued use ⟳ of the drug despite negative consequences.”

“Oh, get ⟳ that buzz / Love ⟳ is the drug / I'm thinking of”

“Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel ⟳, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance ⟳, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have ⟳ simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have ⟳ had great need ⟳ […]”

“Fear was my drug of choice. I thrived on scary movies, ghost stories and rollercoasters. I dreamed of playing the last ⟳ girl left alive in a slasher film — the one who screams herself hoarse as she discovers her friends' bodies one by one.”

“Because your love ⟳, your love ⟳, your love ⟳ is my drug”

“The truth is...eating is my drug. When I am upset ⟳, I eat ⟳...when I am sad, I eat ⟳...when I am happy, I eat ⟳.”

“And virtue shall a drug become ⟳.”

“[…] Sermons are mere Drugs. The Trade ⟳ is ſo vaſtly ſtocked vvith them, that really unleſs they come ⟳ out vvith the Name ⟳ of VVhitfield [i.e, George Whitefield] or VVeſtley [John Wesley], or ſome other ſuch great Man, as a Biſhop, or thoſe ſort of People, I don't care to touch ⟳, […]”

““I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try ⟳ going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk ⟳ it over again.””

“Hadst thou, like ⟳ us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have ⟳ plunged thyself / In general riot”

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Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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