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Drug vs. Pharmaceutical — What's the Difference?

Drug vs. Pharmaceutical — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Drug and Pharmaceutical

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Drug

A drug is any substance that causes a change in an organism's physiology or psychology when consumed. Drugs are typically distinguished from food and substances that provide nutritional support.

Pharmaceutical

Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

Drug

A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body
A new drug aimed at sufferers from Parkinson's disease

Pharmaceutical

A pharmaceutical product or preparation.

Drug

Administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility
They were drugged to keep them quiet
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Pharmaceutical

Of, or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

Drug

A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease or as a component of a medication.

Pharmaceutical

A pharmaceutical or pharmacological preparation or product; a drug.

Drug

Such a substance as recognized or defined by the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Pharmaceutical

Drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment

Drug

A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.

Pharmaceutical

Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists;
The pharmaceutical industry

Drug

(Obsolete) A chemical or dye.

Pharmaceutical

Of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment

Drug

To administer a drug to, especially to treat pain or induce anesthesia.

Drug

To give a drug to, especially surreptitiously, in order to induce stupor.

Drug

To poison or mix (food or drink) with a drug.

Drug

(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.
The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.

Drug

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
Take drugs
She used to be a drug addict

Drug

Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

Drug

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

Drug

(transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.

Drug

(transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

Drug

(intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

Drug

(dialect) drag
You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
Look what the cat drug in

Drug

To drudge; to toil laboriously.

Drug

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

Drug

To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles.
Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it.

Drug

To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugged as oft,With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws.

Drug

To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.

Drug

A drudge .

Drug

Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines.
Whence merchants bringTheir spicy drugs.

Drug

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand; - used often in the phrase "a drug on the market".
And virtue shall a drug become.

Drug

Any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.

Drug

Any substance intended for use in the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, or cure of disease, especially one listed in the official pharmacopoeia published by a national authority.

Drug

Any substance having psychological effects, such as a narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic agent, especially habit-forming and addictive substances, sold or used illegally; as, a drug habit; a drug treatment program; a teenager into drugs; a drug bust; addicted to drugs; high on drugs.
They [smaller and poorer nations] have lined up to recount how drug trafficking and consumption have corrupted their struggling economies and societies and why they are hard pressed to stop it.

Drug

A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

Drug

Administer a drug to;
They drugged the kidnapped tourist

Drug

Use recreational drugs

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