opiate

This kind of faith — shared by many faiths — is not an opiate or a self-help manual.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022

Sir Peter was also criticised by family members of patients who died after being given opiate drugs at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1987 and 2001.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2020

People who have co-occurring mental health disorders, especially ones that require medication, or who use treatments such as methadone and buprenorphine for opiate use disorder don’t always feel welcome in the recovery community.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2017

To date, 31 states have expanded Medicaid eligibility since 2014, helping to drive a historic reduction in the number of uninsured Americans — including many of those now struggling with opiate addiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017

Both of them overburdened and ill-equipped, weak by nature or circumstance, married to strong-willed, selfish men, addicted to the opiate of sleep.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Medications such as opiates primarily target pain signaling, but they may not adequately address the brain networks involved in the emotional and personal dimensions of persistent pain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Bonus: I need no more arthritis meds, no more opiates, no more braces and no cane.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

This is, to put it mildly, a measured way to respond to a question about McKinsey’s record suggesting ways to “turbocharge” sales of opiates and identifying online dissidents for repressive regimes.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019

Get these pain patients off opiates and off gut-destroying doses of NSAIDs and on this safe effective alternative?

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

The pillow smells of his lime pomade and she breathes it in, sobbing . . . . . . until, drugged by weeping’s opiates, she falls asleep.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides