How to Use opiate in a Sentence

opiate

1 of 2 noun

• Many see television as an opiate of the masses.
• That’s when the pills started coming in, a lot of opiates.
  — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2018
• Lofink’s son died of a opiate and heroine overdose in 2014.
  — Yasmine Askari, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Mar. 2021
• Unable to lose himself in his work, the narrator turns to the true opiate of the masses.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
• The main culprit has been the synthetic opiate fentanyl for the past few years.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 17 July 2019
• The drug, which can be administered as a nasal spray, works by blocking the effects of opiates on the brain.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• Fentanyl, a deadly opiate, was the drug that almost killed Rue last season when Mouse forced her to take it.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 31 Jan. 2022
• Two things set Oxycontin apart from the opiates that came before.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• The suspect was found to be driving under the influence of opiates.
  — Rachel Spacek, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
• And eyeballs and data are the opiate of advertisers big and small.
  — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
• Former opiate users often have resistance to some of the drugs.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• Set against the national opiate epidemic, the amount of drugs used by the show’s youngsters is eye-popping.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2019
• In May of 2020, a friend found O'Neal, who had overdosed on a mix of morphine, opiates and pain medication, in her apartment.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic opiate; an amount the size of the tip of a sharpened pencil can be lethal.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• In our frightening future, the metaverse, not religion, might serve as the opiate of the masses.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2021
• The hardest-core opiate user still wants to be accurate.
  — Monica Rodriguez, Fortune, 25 June 2018
• Heroin is a scourge in east Africa; crack cocaine bedevils west Africa (though it is dwarfed by the abuse of prescription opiates).
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Most dogs show signs within 15 minutes of exposure to opiates, says the agency.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
• One staff member is Catalina Navarro, 59, a mother of three who has been in recovery and off opiates for 25 years.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2023
• It should be treated as an opiate, such as codeine, and be made available only by prescription.
  — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
• Rieman struggled with alcohol addiction and opiate abuse, and had been using that night to take the edge off.
  — Rose Wagner, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• He was found to be under the influence of opiates and in possession of Xanax without proof of prescription.
  — Jake Richardson, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Like any opiate, fentanyl use can increase the risk of dependency and lead to abuse and addiction.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 23 Feb. 2021
• Alex's lawyer blamed Alex's scheme on his 20-year opiate addiction and his depression after the murders of Maggie and Paul.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• The cause of death was acute opiate and cocaine intoxication.
  — Rolfe Winkler, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Someone had just overdosed and a man was yelling into a crowd for the medication used to reverse an opiate overdose.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• For decades the main opiate on the streets in the Bay Area and western half of the country was easily recognizable black tar heroin that came up from Mexico.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• Cara was addicted to opiates and wrote bad checks against her stepfather’s account.
  — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• The pills were made to look like Percocet and other pharmaceutical opiates.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
• According to police, blood tests performed at Eden Medical Center turned up evidence Santos had used amphetamines, opiates, cannabis and ecstasy.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024

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opiate

2 of 2 adjective

• When Marie was at Lexington in the 40s, opiate users were mostly white men.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• Keyes used the patches and a slue of other opiate prescriptions to soothe the pain from the chemotherapy.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
• The Nebraska State Patrol seized 118 pounds of fentanyl in April, making it the largest seizure of the opiate drug in the state's history.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 26 May 2018
• The same opiate dosage could knock out a first-time user while simply staving off an addict’s cravings.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2021
• Her pupils were constricted, which is a sign of opiate use, according to the statement.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 Nov. 2019
• In the absence of nutrition and hydration, the body produces opiate-like substances that blunt hunger and thirst.
  — Jonel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News, 21 Aug. 2017
• The country already had some of the highest rates of opiate addiction in the world, according to the latest U.N. data.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• There's this book, Dreamland, about the opiate crisis in America.
  — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 27 Mar. 2017
• But L’Orvietan’s non-opiate ingredients might not have been just filler.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• Opioid and opiate drugs bind to and activate opioid receptors in your brain, gut, and spinal cord.
  — Tessie Castillo, SELF, 6 Mar. 2018
• It’s even been used as self-treatment for those going through opiate withdrawal.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• That Nearly Killed Me, has been in recovery for an opiate addiction for 17 years.
  — Ginny Graves, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• Kelly’s Laurie may or may not spend all day on a massage chair — either to ease into an opiate-fueled high or to give-off Dr. Evil vibes.
  — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
• The 3-year-old child’s father arrived to take him, but was found to have an active warrant from Brook Park and also exhibited signs of opiate abuse.
  — cleveland, 29 Aug. 2020
• Many of these tests of psilocybin are novel: The studies on anorexia, Alzheimer’s, opiate addiction, and Lyme disease will all be the first of their kind.
  — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2019
• The claim is that this pharmacist received large numbers of heavy opiate prescriptions written by the same doctor.
  — Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• The baby girl never showed signs of opiate withdrawal, and her drug tests came back negative, according to the complaint.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• Sure enough, just a few years later, British doctor Harold Shipman was found guilty of murdering 15 of his patients with opiate injections.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• Advocates say that the record highs in overdose deaths highlight the importance of adopting new strategies to combat the opiate epidemic.
  — Byeli Cahan, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2022
• Schlozman — who also suggested the film echoes the current desolation of the opiate crisis — agrees.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2022
• The study was co-funded by Intelligent Fingerprinting, which makes a drug test that uses the sweat from fingerprints to test for cocaine, cannabis, and opiate use.
  — Emily Price, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
• The current proposal allows for those who would get an opiate prescription from a physician for chronic pain to take advantage of the program.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• In 2017, Embry opened up on Twitter about his opiate addiction and encouraged others to seek help when needed.
  — Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
• Kratom has also been helpful for people looking for a natural way to deal with opiate withdrawal.
  — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Iraq, the opiate epidemic, a brooding sense of financial crisis.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2021
• More problematic is that some clinics, like Zong’s, offer a mix of services — treatment for both opiate addiction and pain.
  — Brian Rinker, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• Combined with other disputes over human rights, trade and opiate production, the list of problem areas is daunting.
  — Matthew Lee, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• As heroin spreads, so does its antidote: Narcan, which rips off and replaces opiate molecules on the brain’s receptors.
  — Staff, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Some of these babies have neonatal opiate withdrawal syndrome (NOWS).
  — Ritika Samant, al, 24 Apr. 2023
• Tennessee logs more opiate prescriptions per capita than any state in the nation except West Virginia.
  — Natasha Vaughn, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024