on drugs

idiom

: using drugs or high on drugs
She looks like she's on drugs.

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Ottawa Reuters — Canada said on Wednesday that China had executed four Canadian citizens on drugs smuggling charges earlier this year, and strongly condemned Beijing’s use of the death penalty. Reuters, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025 Republicans in 2021 introduced a joint resolution that would have put a measure on ballot asking voters to place a ban on drugs in the state constitution, according to previous Statesman reporting. Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 19 Mar. 2025 In one facility, a team of correction captains and officers revived a young man who had overdosed on drugs, while in another, a detainee with a long record of assaulting staff cut a nurse in the face with a medical tool, officials said. Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025 Activists estimate his bloody war on drugs killed as many as 30,000 people. Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for on drugs

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“On drugs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20drugs. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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