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Drug scored and badly cut (9)

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I believe the answer is:

lacerated

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'cut' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'drug scored and badly' is the wordplay.
'drug' becomes 'e' (E is another name for ecstasy).
'scored' becomes 'rated' (I've seen this in another clue).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'badly' becomes 'lac' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'e'+'rated'='erated'
'erated' after 'lac' is 'LACERATED'.

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(Other definitions for lacerated that I've seen before include "Cut deeply" , "Distressed" , "torn apart?" , "badly torn" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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