How to Use opium poppy in a Sentence

opium poppy

noun

• The Greeks worshipped the opium poppy, and so did the Egyptians.
  — Jerry Mitchell and Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2018
• Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy plant, which is also the source of opioid drugs.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Most of the world’s opium poppy had come from just three countries — Afghanistan, Myanmar and Mexico.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• Then in 2010, a Canadian team identified the last two missing pieces of the morphine puzzle in the genome of opium poppy.
  — Luc Henry, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2014
• Heroin comes from the opium poppy, and methadone is synthetic.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The opium poppy is one of the oldest medicinal plants in history.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
• Because poppy seeds come from the opium poppy plant, which is also the source of opioid drugs, the seeds are coated with trace amounts of the illicit substances.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
• The country accounts for more than 90% of the world’s opium poppy cultivation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• For more than 200 years, doctors have soothed their patients’ pain with morphine, the drug isolated from the opium poppy and named after Morpheus, Greek god of dreams.
  — Jon Kelvey, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
• Javed’s unit arrested traffickers, raided drug labs, and set fire to fields of mauve opium poppies.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Opium, a drug derived from the opium poppy, has been known and used for more than 7,000 years, according to History Today.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
• The United States has spent about $9 billion to fight the problem over the past 18 years, but Afghan farmers are cultivating more opium poppies than ever.
  — Craig Whitlock, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
• Drug overdose deaths have spiked to record highs in recent years, primarily due to the spread of opioids, a class of drug found in or derived from chemicals found in the opium poppy plant.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• In 2010, the U.S. pumped millions of dollars into programs meant to encourage farmers growing opium poppies to grow things like pomegranates.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• There’s no need to grow vast fields of opium poppies, which must be defended against weather, competitors and government eyes.
  — Fortune, 6 June 2018
• Papaver somniferum is the scientific name for the opium poppy plant.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
• Unlike the opium poppy, coffee and tea plants do not press Pollan into service as a propagator.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• So the health care conglomerate, better known for baby shampoo and Band-Aids, bought a business that grew and processed opium poppies in faraway Tasmania, off the coast of Australia.
  — Katie Thomas, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• Synthetic opioids are derived from the opium poppy plant, and opium has been known for its addictive properties for thousands of years.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 10 Aug. 2023
• The Mexican army has tried for decades to eradicate opium poppies—the raw material for heroin, morphine and other drugs—but struggles to keep up with new plantings.
  — Dudley Althaus, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• And so of course scientists were looking for a way of synthesizing this with other base chemicals that don’t require the opium poppy, and that was successful in the creation of fentanyl.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
• Derived from the opium poppy, opioids alleviate pain by binding to opioid receptors in the brain.
  — Leah Shaffer, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2016
• For decades, intelligence agencies have been able to monitor acres of foreign coca farms and opium poppy fields from the air before crops were turned into cocaine and heroin.
  — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
• Heroin is produced from morphine, a natural substance drawn from opium poppy plants.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• His colleague Joaquín Mora was often at his side during the past 20 of those years, during which drug cartels tightened their grip on the region, filling the mountains with opium poppy and marijuana.
  — MarÍa Verza, ajc, 22 June 2022
• That means small farmers, or campesinos, in this border state's rugged Sierra Madre who long planted marijuana to be smuggled into the United States are switching to opium poppies, which bring a higher price.
  — David Agren, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018
• Since antiquity, humans have utilized the power of the opium poppy to ease pain, treat disease and generate euphoria.
  — Jon Kelvey, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
• While morphine is still produced in plantations of opium poppies, the discovery of an enzyme that increases the tyrosine used to make the painkilling molecule could have effects on how that drug and others are made.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• In recent years, its opium poppy fields have been giving way to jungle laboratories, as the demand for synthetic drugs outstrips the demand for heroin.
  — Gabrielle Smith, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• The production of opium poppies—which had been nearly eliminated by the Taliban by 2000—soared, with profits flowing to the most senior government officials.
  — Rory Stewart, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024