How to Use on drugs in a Sentence

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• The war on drugs caused more harm than many of the drugs themselves.
  — Peter Grinspoon, STAT, 9 July 2026
• The war on drugs — long fought on the ground — is now airborne.
  — Tania Navarro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
• Many of my childhood friends were headed to prison or strung out on drugs.
  — John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
• Winfrey asked if Keough thought her mother was back on drugs.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
• Everyone else in the garage was asleep or nodding out on drugs.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• In global health, billions are spent on drugs and treatments.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
• Today’s great reads A movie star, a suicide and a nation’s war on drugs.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Turns out, the lasers have been in use since last month - not in the war in Iran, but in the war on drugs at home.
  — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• The first problem with the war on drugs is the idea of what exactly constitutes a drug.
  — Arun A.k., Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• That was true at the height of the war on drugs and remains true now, even when the policies are markedly friendlier.
  — Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
• North Carolina’s crusade against hemp is not the only front in this war on drugs.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• In such a climate, politicians are under pressure to appear tough on drugs.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• If not the only nation that doesn’t negotiate prices on drugs.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• High drug costs have long been one of Americans’ largest health care headaches, and spending on drugs is on the rise.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
• That initiative is about going back to the 1980s and the war on drugs.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
• But nonprofits should not be as reliant on government cash as addicts are on drugs.
  — Scott Walter, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2025
• That nurse later overdosed on drugs acquired from the hospital.
  — Dan Primack, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
• With Venezuela, we were told the main issue centered on drugs, while now the issue of oil is front and center.
  — Jared Gans, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2026
• There’s concern that bringing back criminal penalties is going back to the war on drugs.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• The goal should be long-term wellness through lifestyle, not lifelong dependency on drugs.
  — Alex Ward, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
• Trump is threatening duties of 200% more on drugs made elsewhere.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
• At the end of the table, Faris, an Iranian refugee who had ended up on drugs, stroked a glass of tea.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• He is also wanted on drugs and weapons charges in Arkansas, the sheriff's office said.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Whoever thought a song about being high as a kite on drugs, stalking someone else’s girlfriend would resonate quite so much?
  — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 30 May 2025
• And for over five decades, various US presidents have declared wars on drugs.
  — Isobel Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
• Brunson now sees her mother’s embrace of a faith with strict prohibitions on drugs as a way of seeking safety.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Part true crime and part cartoon, the film blends community, the war on drugs, and a whole lot of weed with the humor and heart of the folks who lived it.
  — Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Feb. 2026
• Three decades ago California was over on the right with the war on drugs and tough three-strikes sentencing for repeat felons.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Yet Americans are charged a premium on drugs and healthcare services that others do not have to pay.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• First used in the war on drugs against kingpins, the practice has since become dubious and discredited.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024