as in hypnotic
tending to cause sleep
morphine is an opiate drug
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as in narcotic
something that soothes, calms, or induces passivity or a sense of security
a cultural critic who argues that the Internet has now joined television as an opiate of the American people
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Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, a watchdog group, petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration in 2021 to limit the opiate content of poppy seeds.
—David Hilzenrath, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2024
And yet with fentanyl, the drug naloxone, if administered quickly enough, can reverse the effects of opiates and save lives.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
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Elvis was a longtime opiate user, having also abused sleeping pills, antihistamines, barbiturates and, lastly, laxatives to treat intense constipation caused by his prescription-grade painkillers.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, a watchdog group, petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration in 2021 to limit the opiate content of poppy seeds.
—David Hilzenrath, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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Army veteran Christopher DeSanto served in Iraq, mustered out with physical and emotional issues, and became addicted to opiates prescribed by a doctor.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2024
And yet with fentanyl, the drug naloxone, if administered quickly enough, can reverse the effects of opiates and save lives.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
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Except as a form of hypnotic relaxation, even watching seems beside the point.Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Born January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey, George Kresge was inspired to become a mentalist by Lee Falk’s crime solving comic strip Mandrake the Magician, whose work was based on an unusually fast hypnotic technique.Marc Berman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The suspects were charged with abandonment of a person followed by death, as well as supply and facilitation of narcotics, Argentina's National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office said in a Nov. 7 press release.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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Prosecutors allege that a social media network was set up by an alumnus of Rutgers University to facilitate the sale and distribution of narcotics.Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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In the park, the medical outreach team handed out glass pipes and test kits that can detect fentanyl or veterinary tranquilizer in drugs before they’re consumed, possibly saving lives.Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
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An Ohio woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week for injecting her estranged husband with an animal tranquilizer — and then burying his body — during an attack that was partially captured on a vehicle dash camera.Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
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What to expect during treatment: Dorantes applies a topical anesthetic for around 30 minutes, and the treatment itself takes 20 to 30 minutes.Amber Gibson, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024
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Instead, its high volume of ketamine, a potent anesthetic already skyrocketing as a prescription medication as well as surging in misuse, is responsible for its dissociative and psychedelic effects.Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Opiate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opiate. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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