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purple heart

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  1. The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally.
  2. A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s.
  3. A US military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those wounded or killed while serving on or after 5 April 1917.

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