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noun

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plural of drug

as in medications

a substance or preparation used to treat disease prescribed a drug to treat the bacterial infection

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verb

present tense third-person singular of drug

as in doses

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Gunfire broke out inside the Philippine Senate as authorities attempted to arrest a senator accused of crimes against humanity linked to former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs crackdown. —

Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 15 May 2026 Up until now, the playbook has mostly been for large drugmakers to license drugs that were discovered and underwent early testing in China, or essentially take experimental drugs out of China. —

Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 15 May 2026 Not all insurance covers it, and the high cost is one of the marks against the drugs, according to the Mayo Clinic, which also cites gastrointestinal problems, loss of muscle mass and bone density as potential negative side effects. —

Connie Ogle updated May 15, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026 United Therapeutics will primarily test its small molecule drugs with Varda’s in-orbit technologies, Reilly says. —

Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 15 May 2026 Future work will focus on loading the microrobots with therapeutic drugs and testing them in living systems. —

Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026 Police also allegedly found drugs inside one of the vehicles, leading to Kapri's arrest. —

Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026 Peter’s hosting duties are getting out of hand, and most of his meager income comes from dealing drugs, making next to no profit on account of his habit of getting high on his own supply. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 May 2026 So there were police and military checkpoints all over the place looking for guns and/or drugs. —

Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 9 May 2026

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While in the clinic, behind the gee-wizardry of the modern diagnostics and next-generation medications, the practice of endocrinology remains rooted in one person telling their story and the other trying to interpret it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
The process is fraught in other ways — the city has been sued in the past for trashing items like tents, laptops and medications.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026