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1826 T. Carlyle Let. 16 Nov. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) IV. 156 Except this one consideration of drug-taking, I have positively nothing in the world to complain of.

1906 R. Brooke Let. 3 Apr. (1968) 48 I have to read stealthily.., a practice akin to that of secret drug-taking.

1965 Punch 28 July 138/3 The film started with the customary pop music and some sinister hints of teenage drug-taking, road-hoggishness, violence and debauchery.

2002 S. Burke Deadwater v. 45 The isthmus was not only regarded as a slum but also a warren of evil byways, of sordid sexual encounters, open drug-taking, poisonous ethnic cuisine and darktown atrocity.

1844 M. L. Shew & J. Shew Water-cure for Ladies vi. 69 Many a poor child is actually ‘drugged to death’, through the milk of the drug-taking mother. The habit of alcoholic stimulation, is thus often brought on.

1935 J. S. Lee Underworld of East ix. 59 There is a drug which, with the exception of opium, is more popular among the drug-taking population of India than all others, and that is Indian hemp.

2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land p. xi Few think of ecstasy as an actual drug, and most differ from their drug-taking predecessors by taking it without reference to a political or sociological subtext.