NOUN
- a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction
How To Use drug of abuse In A Sentence
- Further, DM is a commonly used as a drug of abuse by adolescents.
- The addiction hypothesis would be greatly strengthened by the demonstration that any drug of abuse produces special changes in the brain.