Definition of "recreational drug" []

• A psychoactive drug taken deliberately for the effect it has on the mind rather than for its medicinal effects. (noun)

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• "Ten years later Sernyl would be known primarily by its street names—hog, crystal, DOA, angel dust, PCP—and emerge as the main recreational drug of the inner-city ghettos."