How to Use designer drug in a Sentence

designer drug

noun

• Ecstasy is a designer drug.
• Some sort of new/designer drug not written into the rules cannot be the cause of a penalty.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 June 2018
• The many short-lived relationships and casual trysts did not help and neither did the designer drugs.
  — Vikram Zutshi, Quartz India, 19 July 2019
• The kids, too, are well drawn and eccentric, including one who has a designer drug for every mood and occasion.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Apr. 2018
• Silmi obtained large amounts of cocaine and designer drugs as part of the operation, according to agents.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• All the while, designer drugs flood into high schools as kids draw together and break apart, their society riven and their judgment impaired, overdose an omnipresent threat.
  — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
• Georgia law enforcement officials noted in June that other states had warned that naloxone might not work in users who'd ingested a designer drug called acrylfentanyl.
  — Anna Edney, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2018
• Georgia law-enforcement officials noted in June that other states had warned that naloxone might not work in users who’d ingested a designer drug called acrylfentanyl.
  — Fortune, 19 Apr. 2018
• Brought in from the black-market wilderness by deep-pocketed, consumer-savvy companies, cannabis may become just another designer drug.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• The show suggests that our modern society, with its smartphone dating apps, internet pornography and designer drugs, has made teenage life more extreme and dangerous than ever before.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2019
• According to this line of thinking, NBA players possess the financial wherewithal and career incentives to pay for designer drugs that evade detection, particularly when those drugs are taken in small dosages.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The designer drug does not actually contain marijuana, but is made of plants sprayed with various psychoactive chemicals.
  — Lindsey Tanner, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Kalfas said the appearance of isotonitazene and other, similar designer drugs shows why the epidemic cannot be fought by eliminating any one drug, but rather needs to be addressed by emphasizing treatment, prevention and harm reduction.
  — Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 18 May 2020
• Worryingly, people who overdose on such designer drugs, known collectively as China White, have been said to be less responsive to antidotes now widely carried by first responders.
  — Anna Edney, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2018
• The market often moves faster than the regulator, and a combination of sophisticated designer drugs, masking agents and microdosing probably could outsmart even the most scrutinizing test.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Manufacturers periodically change its chemical composition, complicating efforts to regulate or ban the designer drug.
  — Jerzy Shedlock, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024