Drug (disambiguation)

A drug is any chemical substance other than a food or device that affects the function of living things. Drugs can be used to treat illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

Drug(s) may also refer to:

• Drugs (journal), a peer-reviewed medical journal
• Drug (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
  • Graciano, another wine grape with Drug as a synonym
• Drug Island, an island in Alaska, U.S.
• Drug (India), a variant spelling for Durg or Durg district
• D.R.U.G.S.(Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows), an American post-hardcore band previously known as D.R.U.G.S.
• DRUGS, a funk musical group founded by Michael "Clip" Payne
• Drûg, a term for a member of the Drúedain, a Middle-earth race in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Drug, a name for a demon in ancient Vedic Hinduism, from the Vedic Sanskrit root druh ("to be hostile")
• Drug/druh (друг), the word for "friend" in Slavic languages, prominently used (as a Nadsat jargon) in A Clockwork Orange
• Drug, also drugg or droge, a floating device roped to a harpoon used in ancient whaling to exhaust the whale
• Drug, In some English dialects, a non-standard verb past form for "dragged"

See also

• Antiretroviral drug
• Antiviral drug
• Approved drug, drug approval by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States
• Drug abuse
• Hard and soft drugs
• Illegal drug trade
• Inverse benefit law
• Legal drugs
• List of drugs
• Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the United Kingdom act under which substances defined as drugs are listed and controlled
• Pharmaceutical drug
• Psychoactive drug, chemical substance used to alter behavior and perception for many differing reasons
• Recreational drug use
• Performance-enhancing drug