drug

A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

We took drugs and partied all night.

They're on drugs.

Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of

Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

And virtue shall a drug become.

[…] Sermons are mere Drugs. The Trade is ſo vaſtly ſtocked vvith them, that really unleſs they come out vvith the Name of VVhitfield [i.e, George Whitefield] or VVeſtley [John Wesley], or ſome other ſuch great Man, as a Biſhop, or thoſe ſort of People, I don't care to touch, […]

Ellipsis of drugstore.

“I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”

To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.

To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

Past all the doses of your drugging doctors

To use intoxicating drugs.

To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day.

A drudge.

Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot