on drugs

idiom

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

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Newspapers were not inclined to report on police abuses, and local news made the world look like a dangerous place, with kidnappings and robberies and police bravely fighting on the frontlines of the war on drugs that was turning city streets into chaos. Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025 Her husband is on drugs and abuses my daughter mentally and physically in front of the children. Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 20 June 2025 Following Murry’s death in 1973, Brian went into seclusion, existing on drugs and overeating, building a sandbox in his home for his piano, lying in bed all day, sometimes emerging in only a bathrobe. Roy Trakin, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025 The tabloids kept reporting the bad news: He was wasted on drugs, broke, living out of a car. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 June 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 4 Jul. 2025.

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