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"Did he take any pills?''

"He is not a drugy kind of a guy, he likes his beer buzz but.."

"Beer buzz" he likes to be under influence?
 
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"Did he take any pills?''

"He is not a drugy kind of a guy, he lokes his beer buzz but.."

"Beer buzz" he likes to be under influence?

What is "lokes" for god's sake?! Is it "likes"?

I guess that he likes to cure himself with beer and not pills.
 

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What is "lokes" for god's sake?! Is it "likes"?

I guess that he likes to cure himself with beer and not pills.

So he's a beer drinker?
 

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Yes. Being "buzzed" on alcohol is a light level of intoxication.
 

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So he's a beer drinker?

I don't like to label him as a beer drinker.
1) What is "lokes" there?
2) What do you think "beer buzz" is? I think "buzz" refers to that odd feeling in the head after drinking alcohol.

Two interpretations:

1- He is sick because of alcohol but he does not cure himself because he likes it.

2- He is sick but he doesn't like to take pills, instead he drinks alcohol.
 

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I don't like to label him as a beer drinker.
1) What is "lokes" there?
2) What do you think "beer buzz" is? I think "buzz" refers to that odd feeling in the head after drinking alcohol.

Two interpretations:

1- He is sick because of alcohol but he does not cure himself because he likes it.

2- He is sick but he doesn't like to take pills, instead he drinks alcohol.

I've already corrected it. It's "likes".
 

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I guess my first inference is more likely to be correct.
 

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I don't like to label him as a beer drinker.
1) What is "lokes" there?
2) What do you think "beer buzz" is? I think "buzz" refers to that odd feeling in the head after drinking alcohol.

Two interpretations:

1- He is sick because of alcohol but he does not cure himself because he likes it.

2- He is sick but he doesn't like to take pills, instead he drinks alcohol.

It's nothing to do with being sick. It is referring to taking pills recreationally. Some people take prescription medicines illegally for the effect. Opium-based painkillers are a particular problem.

This person does not take any pills, he is happy with beer for recreational purposes.
 

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So a drugy kind of person is not someone who takes pill whenever he/she has a dull pain in the head, but is a person who likes taking pills for pleasure. Am I right?
 

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Drugs come in all sorts of forms. Smoked, snorted, injected or ingested.

Some drug abusers choose pills. Taking an aspirin or Tylenol when you have a headache doesn't make you a druggie.

Taking prescription painkillers in order to feel good does.
 

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Drugs come in all sorts of forms. Smoked, snorted, injected or ingested.

Some drug abusers choose pills. Taking an aspirin or Tylenol when you have a headache doesn't make you a druggie.

Taking prescription painkillers in order to feel good does.

Do you call opium a drug? Or a drug should be chemical?
 

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There are many different ways of defining drug use- recreational drug use would be for pleasure, but non-medical drug use would include people using drugs to get rid of pain that have not been prescribed or are not intended for that purpose, etc. However, neither are applicable here. It's simply a case of someone liking the effect that drinking a few beers has on him, and I get no sense from the sentence that the person has any alcohol problem. He's not a druggy person because he doesn't consume illegal drugs for pleasure- he drinks beer. the speaker is differentiating beer from illegal drugs.

PS I would definitely call opium a drug- it doesn't have to be purified into heroin, etc, to become a drug- plant or powder, it's still a drug.
 

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"Drugs" are understood to mean anything which has an effect on the body when taken. Whether processed or not.

If there is likely to be confusion, we refer to pills a doctor prescribes as "medicine" or "prescription drugs." The companies that make them refer to them as "pharmaceuticals."

Someone who has a drug habit could be abusing prescription medicine or be abusing "street drugs" like cocaine, heroin, marijuana or home-made meth amphetamines, etc.
 

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"He's not a druggie, he likes his beer buzz...." means that the person in question doesn't smoke marijuana or do meth or any other illegal drugs. The only way he gets "high" is by drinking enough beer to get pleasantly drunk. :cheers:
 
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