DRUG HABIT

  

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DRUG HABIT

Specialty Definition: DRUG HABIT

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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.

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Synonyms: DRUG HABIT

Synonyms: Drug abuse, Drug addiction. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: DRUG HABIT

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Photo Album: DRUG HABIT

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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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DRUG HABIT

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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.

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Modern Translation: DRUG HABIT

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

   

Portuguese

  

drogadicção (drug habituation), habituação s drogas (drug habituation), habituação (drug habituation, habituation). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

наркомания (addiction, morphinism). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

drogadicción (drug addiction, drug habituation, toxicomania), habituación a las drogas (drug habituation), habituación (drug habituation, habituation). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chứng nghiện thuốc tê mê, chứng nghiện ma tuý. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRUG HABIT

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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