Definition of Hard drug

1. Noun. A narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addiction.

Specialized synonyms: Cocain, Cocaine, Diacetylmorphine, Heroin
Generic synonyms: Controlled Substance, Narcotic
Antonyms: Soft Drug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Drug

hard corn
hard count
hard currency
hard disc
hard disc drive
hard disk
hard disk drive
hard disk drives
hard disks
hard done by
hard drink
hard drive
hard drives
hard drop
hard drops
hard drug (current term)
hard feelings
hard fern
hard freeze
hard freezes
hard g
hard gainer
hard handed
hard hat
hard hats
hard head
hard hit
hard knocks
hard labor

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. ..."

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