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Definition of Hard drug
1. Noun. A narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addiction.
Generic synonyms: Controlled Substance, Narcotic
Antonyms: Soft Drug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Drug
Literary usage of Hard drug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drugs, Crime, and the Justice System (1992)
"Johnson, Terry Williams, Kojo A. Dei, and Harry Sanabria, "Drug abuse in the
inner city: Impact on hard- drug users and the community, ..."
2. Drug Use Measurement: Strengths, Limitations, and Recommendations for (1993)
"... additional researchers thought the data were accurate within 10 percentage
points for casual and recreational users but not frequent, hard-drug users). ..."
3. Problems of Drug Dependence: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting by Louie S. Harrie (1999)
"Storefronts and delivery services seem to have effectively separated themselves
from the more prominent hard drug (ie, crack-cocaine, powdered cocaine, ..."
4. The Drug Connection in U. S.-Mexican Relations edited by Guadalupe Gonzalez, Marta Tienda (1996)
"The surveys show that there is no consumption of the "hard" drug, heroin, and
the "soft" drug, cocaine, has the lowest consumption rate of all.14 ..."
5. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"(1989) and Newcomb and Bentler (1986), who emphasized the crucial role of cigarette
smoking in the progression to marijuana and hard drug use, even without ..."
6. Drug Abuse Prevention Through Family Interventions by Rebecca Singer Ashery, Elizabeth B. Robertson, Karol Linda Kumpfer (1999)
"Scherer, SE, and Mukherjee, BN Moderate and hard drug users among college students:
A study of their drug use patterns and characteristics. ..."