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Given a drug in rave-up, wanting new thrill (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dosed

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'given a drug' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'rave-up wanting new thrill' is the wordplay.
'rave up' becomes 'do' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'wanting' suggests deleting specific letters (to want something can mean to lack it or need it).
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'thrill' becomes 'send' (I've seen this in another clue).
'send' with 'n' removed is 'sed'.
'do'+'sed'='DOSED'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for dosed that I've seen before include "Medicated" , "Given shot" , "Gave medicine to" , "Administered a drug to" , "Given medicine" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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