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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Ethically disputed business practices, Harm reduction, Designer drugs, Drug culture
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designer drug  controlled substance analog  Controlled substance analogues  designer drugs  designer steroid
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A psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs WordNet 3.0
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A psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A designer drug is a structural or functional analog of a controlled substance that has been designed to mimic the pharmacological effects of the original drug, while avoiding classification as illegal and/or detection in standard drug tests. Wikipedia
A drug specifically developed to replace an illegal recreational drug (so as to circumvent existing drug laws), usually by modifying its molecular structure. Wiktionary
Modified drug. Wiktionary (translation)