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designer drug

DEFINITIONS OF: designer drug

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n 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

Type of:
consciousness-altering drug, mind-altering drug, psychoactive drug, psychoactive substance
a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions
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