Definitions

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  • adjective Involving many substances (used of drug abuse).

Etymologies

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poly- +‎ substance

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Examples

  • During a three-hour interview with Williams, Dr. Jacob Hadden concluded that he suffers from psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and polysubstance dependence and is likely to reoffend.

    The OBSERVER 2010

  • Persico AM, Bird G, Gabbay FH, Uhl GR (1996) D2 dopamine receptor gene TaqI A1 and B1 restriction fragment length polymorphisms: enhanced frequencies in psychostimulant-preferring polysubstance abusers.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomas Drgon et al. 2010

  • The D2 dopamine receptor Taq I B1 restriction fragment length polymorphism appears more frequently in polysubstance abusers.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomas Drgon et al. 2010

  • There are significant overlaps with data from: a) 600k GWA studies of a subset of these polysubstance abusers (p

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomas Drgon et al. 2010

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