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单词 gateway drug
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Definition of gateway drug in English:

gateway drug

nounˈɡeɪtweɪdrʌɡˈɡeɪtweɪ ˌdrəɡ
  • A drug which supposedly leads the user on to more addictive or dangerous drugs.

    (诱使初次吸毒者吸食更危险毒品的)入门毒品

    he said he still believed that cannabis was a ‘gateway drug’ to harder substances
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's still a gateway drug for meth or cocaine; I wouldn't want my kids out there recreationally smoking marijuana.
    • Demonised as a gateway drug, hailed as a medical wonder drug, cannabis is never far from controversy and the debate to legalise it has never been more acute.
    • There was also no evidence in either city to back the common refrain that marijuana serves as a gateway drug.
    • Does this mean that alcohol is a gateway drug for marijuana?
    • Cigarettes are a gateway drug; most narcotics addicts start on cigarettes.
    • There's clear evidence that cannabis is itself a gateway drug to harder and more damaging drugs, and that cannabis itself has a devastating impact on our poorer communities.
    • As to the gateway drug claims, heroin addicts have the type of personality that makes them heroin addicts.
    • ‘I consider our single malt a gateway drug for the whiskey industry,’ he says.
    • While it might not be a gateway drug, I like to think of it as a ‘buffer drug’.
    • We thought that comics were like a gateway drug into reading.
    • He scorns claims that cannabis is a gateway drug: ‘It's the individual's personality that leads to other drugs.’
    • Furthermore, those who used all three of these gateway drugs were much more likely to use cocaine than those who used only one gateway drug.
    • Many young people in the town are regarded as casual users of these recreational drugs, which are often seen as the gateway drug to substances such as cocaine and heroin.
    • Instead, the legal status of marijuana makes it a gateway drug.
    • He added: ‘I don't believe that cannabis is a gateway drug that will inevitably lead users on to experimentation with other harder drugs’.
    • Twenty-nine point one percent of ecstasy users also abuse one or more other illegal substances, indicating it is likely to be a gateway drug.
    • The Mexican authorities were shocked at the liberalisation of the drug in Britain, he said, as marijuana was a gateway drug to cocaine.
    • The life list is the beginning of the mania, but much like a gateway drug, it can lead to more extreme enumerating activity.
    • It's de rigueur in high school health classes (or at least it was when I was in high school) for marijuana to be presented as the gateway drug.
    • At least the movie does a formidable service by proving once and for all that neither marijuana nor LSD is the true gateway drug.

Definition of gateway drug in US English:

gateway drug

nounˈɡātwā ˌdrəɡˈɡeɪtweɪ ˌdrəɡ
  • A habit-forming drug that, while not itself addictive, may lead to the use of other addictive drugs.

    many believe that alcohol and cigarettes are gateway drugs that increase the risk of subsequent involvement with illegal drugs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Demonised as a gateway drug, hailed as a medical wonder drug, cannabis is never far from controversy and the debate to legalise it has never been more acute.
    • Many young people in the town are regarded as casual users of these recreational drugs, which are often seen as the gateway drug to substances such as cocaine and heroin.
    • It's still a gateway drug for meth or cocaine; I wouldn't want my kids out there recreationally smoking marijuana.
    • He scorns claims that cannabis is a gateway drug: ‘It's the individual's personality that leads to other drugs.’
    • We thought that comics were like a gateway drug into reading.
    • Twenty-nine point one percent of ecstasy users also abuse one or more other illegal substances, indicating it is likely to be a gateway drug.
    • As to the gateway drug claims, heroin addicts have the type of personality that makes them heroin addicts.
    • Does this mean that alcohol is a gateway drug for marijuana?
    • He added: ‘I don't believe that cannabis is a gateway drug that will inevitably lead users on to experimentation with other harder drugs’.
    • Instead, the legal status of marijuana makes it a gateway drug.
    • Cigarettes are a gateway drug; most narcotics addicts start on cigarettes.
    • While it might not be a gateway drug, I like to think of it as a ‘buffer drug’.
    • At least the movie does a formidable service by proving once and for all that neither marijuana nor LSD is the true gateway drug.
    • There was also no evidence in either city to back the common refrain that marijuana serves as a gateway drug.
    • It's de rigueur in high school health classes (or at least it was when I was in high school) for marijuana to be presented as the gateway drug.
    • ‘I consider our single malt a gateway drug for the whiskey industry,’ he says.
    • Furthermore, those who used all three of these gateway drugs were much more likely to use cocaine than those who used only one gateway drug.
    • The life list is the beginning of the mania, but much like a gateway drug, it can lead to more extreme enumerating activity.
    • The Mexican authorities were shocked at the liberalisation of the drug in Britain, he said, as marijuana was a gateway drug to cocaine.
    • There's clear evidence that cannabis is itself a gateway drug to harder and more damaging drugs, and that cannabis itself has a devastating impact on our poorer communities.
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