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DRUG USE

Specialty Definition: DRUG USE

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Adopted in a recent WHO report describing drug utilization as:the marketing, distribution, prescription and use of drugs in a society, with special emphasis on the resulting medical, social and economic consequences. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DRUG USE

Specialty definitions using "DRUG USE": drug misuse. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DRUG USE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control , Vol) (reference)

  • Shattering Myths & Mysteries of Alcohol: Insights & Answers to Drinking, Smoking, and Drug Use (reference)

  • Anti-Rheumatic Drugs, Experimental Agents, and Clinical Aspects of Drug Use (Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Rheumatic Drugs, Volume 3) (reference)

  • Drug Use in America: Problem in Perspective and Report of National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (reference)

  • Explaining Delinquency and Drug Use (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DRUG USE

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Lapses to drug use can occur during treatment. (references)

Increased poverty, injection drug use, and homelessness. (references)

Possible drug use during treatment must be monitored continuously. (references)

Children

Brazil

Drug use, particularly glue sniffing and crack, is increasingly prevalent among street children. (references)

Zimbabwe

The number of street children, and the related problems of theft, street violence, drug use, and violent death, increased significantly. (references)

Ukraine

Although statistics were unavailable, drug use and child prostitution were widespread and received substantial media attention during the year. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

The ISA, the UPA, and the Films Act allow the ban, seizure, censorship, or restriction of written, visual, or musical materials by these two agencies if they determine that such materials threaten the stability of the State, are pro-Communist, contravene moral norms, are pornographic, show excessive or gratuitous sex and violence, glamorize or promote drug use, or incite racial, religious, or linguistic animosities. (references)

Economic History

Burma

Drug use and HIV/AIDS are serious problems. (references)

Ireland

In the S&E region, emphasis will be placed on problems arising from larger centers of population, e.g. problems relating to drug use and homelessness. (references)

Human Rights

Ecuador

It attributed the others to illness and drug use. (references)

Costa Rica

Illegal narcotics are readily available in the prisons, and drug use is common. (references)

Maldives

Persons arrested for drug use are sent to a "drug rehabilitation center" (on a space available basis) where sleeping quarters and most activities are segregated; although common areas are shared by all. (references)

Minorities

Panama

Mainstream political elites generally are unconcerned by the economic problems of black populations and a concomitant rise in drug use, crime, and gang violence. (references)

Women

Palau

Women's group leaders and government officials agree that changes are needed to improve the country's educational system and to reduce illegal drug use among youth. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: DRUG USE

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Drug use is on the decline.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DRUG USE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

drug use

170

drug use prevention

3

drug use teen

70

celebrity drug use

3

sign of drug use

38

drug use in teen

3

teenage drug use

31

consequence drug use

3

symptom of drug use

18

juvenile drug use

3

drug use abuse

15

teen alcohol drug use

3

prescription drug use

14

drug use in teenager

3

drug use in america

12

drug use virtual

3

drug use during pregnancy

9

college drug use

2

effects of drug use

9

cause drug use

2

drug use picture

8

drug use among teen

2

drug drug use

7

the fact about drug use

2

adolescent drug use

7

article drug use

2

iv drug use

5

crime drug use

2

teenager drug use

5

athlete and drug use

2

recreational drug use

4

ceremonial drug use

2

drug use in sport

4

after denial drug use years

2

drug use in the workplace

4

1960s drug use

2

intravenous drug use

3

youth drug use

2

drug use in pregnancy

3

depression drug use

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DRUG USE

Language Translations for "DRUG USE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stofbrug (drug consumption), brug af stoffer, brug af narkotika. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

druggebruik (drug consumption). (various references)

   

French

  

usage des drogues, usage de la drogue (drug consumption), consommation de drogues. (various references)

   

German

  

Drogenkonsum (drug consumption), Drogengenuss (drug consumption). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατανάλωση ναρκωτικών (drug consumption), χρήση ναρκωτικών (drug consumption). (various references)

   

Italian

  

uso della droga (drug consumption), consumo di droghe, consumo della droga (drug consumption). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ugdray eusay

   

Portuguese

  

uso da droga (drug consumption), consumo de drogas, consumo de droga (drug consumption). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

consumo de drogas (drug consumption). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRUG USE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-r-s-u-u"

-1 letter: surged.

-2 letters: dregs, drugs, druse, dures, grues, gudes, gurus, surge, urged, urges.

-3 letters: dreg, drug, dues, dugs, dure, ergs, geds, grue, gude, guru, reds, regs, rude, rued, rues, rugs, ruse, sued, suer, surd, sure, urds, urge, urus, used, user.

-4 letters: due, dug, eds, erg, ers, ged, red, reg, res, rue, rug, seg, ser, sue.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-r-s-u-u"
 

+1 letter: upsurged.

 

+3 letters: burgundies, guardhouse, underslung.

 

+4 letters: curmudgeons, desulfuring, guardhouses, roughhoused, skulduggery.

 

+5 letters: glucuronides, skullduggery, undergrounds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Quotations: Speeches
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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