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club drug

a substance used by teenagers and young adults at bars, dance clubs, or all-night parties known as raves. Club drugs include MDMA (Ecstasy); GHB, flunitrazepam, and ketamine (see also date-rape drug); methamphetamine; and LSD. Chronic abuse can have severe physiological or psychological repercussions (or both) and, when combined with the intake of alcohol, might also prove fatal.

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Gesellschaft

Gesellschaft

n. a type of society (the literal meaning of this German word) or social group in which people feel relatively isolated from each other. Their relationships are primarily contractual in nature, being guided chiefly by rational self-interest and the logic of the marketplace. Compare Gemeinschaft. [first described in 1887 by German sociologist Ferdinand Julius Tönnies (1855–1936)]