Synonyms for drug abuse
drug abuse

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. substance abuse, drug abuse, habitnoun

   excessive use of drugs

   Synonyms:
   use, substance abuse, wont, habit, riding habit

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1. • Misuse

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. drug abuse

   Synonyms:
   Drug misuse, substance abuse, substance misuse Comment on terminology: The non-judgemental, non-specific term substance misuse is preferred in medical circles (in the NHS)

2. drug abuse

   Synonyms:
   Substance abuse, see there
   

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1. Peter Navarro:

   We know statistically, based on our experience with the China trade shock in the 2000s, that unemployment creates more suicides, depression and drug abuse, but we also know this in this crisis, as we've basically locked down our hospitals for everything but Covid, women haven't been getting mammograms or cervical examinations for cancer. We haven't been able to do other procedures for the heart or the kidneys. And that's going to kill people as well.

2. Plastic Jesus:

   We only hear about (drug abuse) when high-profile people in Hollywood have a meltdown, check into rehab, or die.

3. National IFC President Jud Horras:

   We have known about concerns and challenges there for quite some time. They've had alcohol concerns, hazing concerns, drug abuse. There have been a lot of concerns at Penn State, the challenge is that the solution lies in getting the students to take ownership of the community and govern more effectively. They have to have ownership in the expectations set and their willingness to govern each other.

4. George Will:

   In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)

5. Jessica Vaughan:

   Our lax immigration policies, our sanctuary policies, and the inability to make progress on drug abuse problems in the U.S. are what have enriched the cartels to begin with, they’re making so much money smuggling through the border.