recreational drug
noun
a drug taken, often casually, for its desired psychological effects or its use in social settings rather than for a medical purpose.
recreational drugs
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pluralof recreational drug.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Detecting this along with recreational drugs and and industrial chemicals had "pointed us to sewage and other sources of urban effluent", he explained.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024
"It's more accurate to understand psychiatric drugs as inducing abnormal states, analogous to how we use recreational drugs to induce euphoria or social disinhibition."
From Time Magazine Archive
