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| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A term formerly used by the WHO. . . to describe compulsive drug abuse of a lesser degree than addiction. . . It. . is a condition resulting from the repeated consumption of a drug. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DRUG HABITSynonyms: Drug abuse, Drug addiction. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intemperance | Indulgence; high living, wild living, inabstinence, self-indulgence; voluptuousness; Adjective: epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The new morality play exit demon rum--enter drug habit / / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Nicaragua | Many of those surveyed said that they engaged in prostitution to buy basic necessities such as food and clothing, or to support a drug habit. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "DRUG HABIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilvaenning (drug habituation, habituation), stoftilvænning (drug habituation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | habituation (drug habituation), gewenning aan geneesmiddelen (drug habituation), gewenning (drug habituation, habituation, physical dependance, resistance, tolerance), addictio (drug addiction, drug habituation), addictie (addiction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | habitude aux drogues (drug habituation), accoutumance (drug habituation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Drug habituation (drug habituation), Drug habit (drug habituation), Drogengewöhnung (drug habituation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έξη (habit, habitude, usage, wontedness), εθισμός σε φάρμακα (drug habituation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | assuefazione (accustoming, addiction, habit, habituation, inurement), abitudine alla droga (drug habituation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugdray abithay drogadicção (drug habituation), habituação s drogas (drug habituation), habituação (drug habituation, habituation). (various references) наркомания (addiction, morphinism). (various references) drogadicción (drug addiction, drug habituation, toxicomania), habituación a las drogas (drug habituation), habituación (drug habituation, habituation). (various references) chứng nghiện thuốc tê mê, chứng nghiện ma tuý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-h-i-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: dirtbag, draught. | |
-3 letters: aright, bright, guitar, hagbut, rubati, turbid, turgid. | |
-4 letters: airth, audit, aught, baith, bight, birth, braid, brugh, bruit, burgh, dhuti, dight, garth, ghaut, girth, grith, guard, habit, rabid, right, tabid, third, tragi, triad, urbia. | |
-5 letters: abri, abut, adit, airt, arid, baht, bait, bard, bath, baud, bhut, bird, brad, brag, brat, brig, brit. | |
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