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Cutting down on nice drug? Preposterous! (8)

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I believe the answer is:

reducing

'cutting down on' is the definition.
('reduce' can be a synonym of 'cut down on')

'nice drug? preposterous' is the wordplay.
'preposterous' indicates anagramming the letters.
'nice'+'drug'='nicedrug'
'nicedrug' anagrammed gives 'REDUCING'.

(Other definitions for reducing that I've seen before include "Making smaller" , "Bringing down, lowering" , "Cutting down" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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