ADJ
- powerful, strong
- modern, new
- wonder
- They're hailing it as the new wonder drug
- sedative
- anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-malarial, etc.
- prescription
- You used to be able to buy this medicine over the counter, but it is now a prescription drug
VERB + DRUG
- be on, take
- Are you taking any other drugs at present?
- prescribe (sb), put sb on
- The doctor put me on anti-inflammatory drugs
- give sb, treat sb with
- administer, give sb
- The nurses came round to give the patients their drugs
- develop
- new drugs that have been developed recently
- be resistant to, not respond to
- Some infections are now resistant to drugs
DRUG + VERB
- cure sth, help sth, treat sth
- drugs that help the growth of skin tissue
PREP
- ~ against
- a powerful drug against tuberculosis
- ~ for
- He's taking drugs for depression
ADJ
- illegal
- addictive, hallucinogenic
- dangerous, hard
- heroin and other hard drugs
- soft
- (= not considered very dangerous) Many addicts start on soft drugs, such as cannabis
- designer
- (= artificially produced) She took a tablet of the designer drug Ecstasy
VERB + DRUG
- inject (See note for more verbs.)
DRUG + NOUN
- baron, pusher
- cartel
- misuse
- drug/drugs charges, offence
- squad
- war
- the latest moves in the drug war (See note for more nouns.)
PHRASES
- drink and drugs
- the dangers of drink and drugs