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substance abuse

药物滥用,滥用药物,物质滥用,滥用物质

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : long-term, pathological use of alcohol or drugs, characterized by daily intoxication, inability to reduce consumption, and impairment in social or occupational functioning; broadly, alcohol or drug addiction.

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  • Revenue would be earmarked for education, substance abuse treatment and efforts to mitigate the negative effects of how drug laws have been enforced in communities of color.

  • Hogan’s proposal calls for spending $978 million for mental health and substance abuse programs and funds local health departments above their state grant formulas.

  • The budget also calls for spending $978 million for mental health and substance abuse programs.

  • Since the crisis began, $175 billion in emergency funding has been allocated to hospitals and other medical facilities, but less than 1 percent of that has gone specifically to mental health and substance abuse services.

  • We’re not because they’re not trained to be social workers or mental health workers or substance abuse workers.

  • Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.

  • These were cops who had worked the protests and suffered the accompanying verbal taunts and abuse.

  • You get these high-profile people that go into prison, and the staff abuse their authority.

  • When they get someone high profile, like the governor [Bob McDonnell] or like Teresa, they will abuse their positions.

  • Perhaps one of the most egregious examples is the abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws.

  • In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.

  • Its backbone should be the study of biology and its substance should be the threshing out of the burning questions of our day.

  • The nature both of this substance and the antecedent substance from which it is derived is not known.

  • Quaint old Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," recognizes the virtues of the plant while he anathematizes its abuse.

  • But this paper was a very tough, fibrous substance, and would resist quite a heavy blow as well as keep out the cold.