These sometimes have 50 or 60 players with nine sizes of instrument. 1  Oxford Companion to Music. see section 2 of the article on Recorder Family. 2  Hamlet, Act III scene ii, Hamlet: Ah, ha! Come, some music! 3  Paradise Lost, Book I: Anon they move/ in perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood/ flutes and soft recorders.
home / medterms medical dictionary a-z list / chasing the dragon definition Medical Definition of Chasing the dragon Chasing the dragon: A practice of heroin use involving heating heroin and then inhaling it. Some heroin users have gone to this practice because they believe erroneously that it will protect them against contracting HIV and other diseases associated with injecting heroin.
Chasing the Dragon also features interviews with medical and law enforcement professionals discussing a variety of issues, including how quickly addiction can set in, how the increasing costs of prescription opioids can lead to the use of heroin as a less expensive alternative, the horrors of withdrawal, the ties between addiction and crime, and the fact that, contrary to popular belief, opiate abuse is prevalent in all segments of society.