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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

The arc of history is a narcotic that robs us of human responsibility, in allowing us to believe in some mysterious mechanism that will make things come out right by a sort of magic.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

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

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

Shibiri, who oversaw anti-gang, narcotics, illegal mining investigations among others in his role, said the money was for repairs to his son's car.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“This kind of sophistication is phenomenal,” said Pronab Mohanty, head of cybercrimes and narcotics for India’s Karnataka state police.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

The scale of illegal waste activity in England saw it once dubbed the "new narcotics" by former Environment Agency chief Sir James Bevan.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Berry said in the wake of Maduro’s capture, “numerous state and nonstate actors involved in the illegal narcotics trade remain unaffected.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

I had been around long enough either to know or to spot instinctively most regular detectives and cops, though not the narcotics people.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey