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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: DRUG USE |
| Specialty definitions using "DRUG USE": drug misuse. (references) |
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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. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Drug use is on the decline. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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. |
| 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 uso da droga (drug consumption), consumo de drogas, consumo de droga (drug consumption). (various references) consumo de drogas (drug consumption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 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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