narcotic

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A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy that directly targets pain-processing areas in the brain while avoiding the addiction risks linked to narcotic drugs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

The regular return of this device lends the album a vaguely narcotic quality, inducing unwanted drowsiness in the listener.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

More than 75% of Thais currently back the plan to reclassify cannabis as a narcotic, according to one recent poll.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2024

In their 1998 book “The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth,” Lena Lenček and Gideon Bosker trace the emergence of the beach as “a narcotic for holiday masses.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2023

West Africans were chewing the caffeine-containing nuts of the latter as a narcotic, long before the Coca-Cola Company enticed first Americans and then the world to drink a beverage originally laced with its extracts.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond