How to Use take drugs in a Sentence

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  • A lot of us take drugs to keep our hearts from giving out too soon.
    Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
  • To make the process cost- and time-efficient, women take drugs to stimulate the growth of more than one egg at a time.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • O’Keefe didn’t drink, didn’t take drugs and didn’t run around on his wife, Jean, the senator told one gathering.
    Tyler Bridges, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The English actor Alan Rickman didn’t drink, or take drugs, to excess.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • His family said he was beaten, forced to take drugs and waterboarded as part of a weeks-long hazing ritual.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 14 July 2021
  • Experts, however, warn that people should not take drugs unless prescribed by a doctor.
    Fox News, 25 June 2020
  • In California, the push to save lives and stop the fallout has led some activists and politicians to propose safe injection sites — places where people can take drugs with clean needles, without fear of arrest.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
  • That decision did irreparable harm to her competitors who did not take drugs, to the integrity of the sport, and to Valieva herself, a 15-year-old who literally took the fall for the actions of adults around her.
    Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2022
  • His daughter, Chloe, has left the superhero life behind completely, and in this season does little but take drugs and occasionally break things.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 May 2021
  • Transplant recipients often take drugs to suppress the immune system to prevent their body from rejecting the organ.
    Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 16 June 2021
  • But people who take drugs containing tadalafil do so under a doctor’s supervision, as tadalafil can interact with other drugs.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But recipients must then take drugs that suppress their immune system to avoid rejecting the transplanted tissue.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Immunotherapy is when people take drugs or intravenous infusions that spur their own immune systems to fight cancer.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2022
  • In addition to Iecanemab, patients may also need to take drugs that are still in development that tamp down inflammation or remove other aberrant proteins.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The ruling does not have any immediate effect on people with private health insurance, or people who take drugs like Truvada to reduce their chances of contracting HIV.
    Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In June, spears testified at a hearing asking to be released from the conservatorship that she had been forced to take drugs after refusing to perform and was prevented from removing a birth control device.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And several studies are assessing the response to coronavirus vaccines in people with cancer, autoimmune conditions like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, or who take drugs that mute the immune response.
    Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021

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