on drugs

idiom

: using drugs or high on drugs
She looks like she's on drugs.

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Officials allege that evidence, including the defendants' DNA found on drugs found at the scene, shows the pair gave substances to the victims before their deaths. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 July 2025 But nonprofits should not be as reliant on government cash as addicts are on drugs. Scott Walter, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2025 Price embedded himself into the lives of Jersey City drug dealers and the police officers assigned to chase them down, whose enforcement of the war on drugs was suffused with bitter cynicism and weariness. Kevin Lozano, New Yorker, 6 July 2025 Crime was skyrocketing across the U.S., and the war on drugs was escalating tensions between the police and Black communities. Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for on drugs

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“On drugs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20drugs. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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