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Designer Drug

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Noun

1. designer drug

a psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Designer Drug

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noun
1. 
any of various narcotic or hallucinogenic substances manufactured illegally from a range of chemicals
2. medicine
a drug designed to act on a specific molecular target

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Designer Drug

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a drug that has been developed by changing slightly the chemical structure of an existing drug, as to evade legal prohibition or to produce certain desired effects

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Designer Drug

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n.
1. A drug synthesized to have properties similar to a known hallucinogen or narcotic but having a slightly altered chemical structure, usually in order to evade restrictions against illegal substances.
2. A drug that is synthesized, especially by genetic engineering, in order to treat a specific medical condition or a specific patient population.

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