Drug (disambiguation)

Drug (disambiguation)

A drug is any chemical substance other than a food or device that affects the function of living things. Drugs can be used to treat illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

Drug(s) may also refer to:

  • Drugs (journal), a peer-reviewed medical journal
  • Drug (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
  • Drug (India), a variant spelling for Durg or Durg district
  • Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, an American post-hardcore band previously known as D.R.U.G.S.
  • DRUGS, a funk musical group founded by Michael "Clip" Payne
  • Drûg, a term for a member of the Drúedain, a Middle-Earth race in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Drug, a name for a demon in ancient Vedic Hinduism, from the Vedic Sanskrit root druh ("to be hostile")
  • Droog, the Russian word for "friend", prominently used (as a Nadsat jargon) in A Clockwork Orange
  • Drug, also drugg or droge, a floating device roped to a harpoon used in ancient whaling to exhaust the whale

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