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recreational pharmaceutical en · NOUN
Meanings
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A medication or similar controlled substance which is consumed outside the context of normal medical treatment for the sole purpose of inducing pleasant sensations, mental reverie, or a state of intoxication.
If there is one person who can be held responsible for the emergence of cocaine as a recreational pharmaceutical, it was Freud.
2003, Dominic Streatfeild, Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography, →ISBN, page 67:
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recreational drug