controlled substance

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   a drug or chemical substance whose possession and use are controlled by law

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Questions about controlled substance

What does controlled substance mean?

controlled substance means "a drug or chemical substance whose possession and use are controlled by law".

Is controlled substance a common word?

controlled substance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.