opiate

But fame has a way of upgrading your perception of everything it touches; it installs a gloss that no one likes to revoke — the illusion it supplies is too effective an opiate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

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

“The opiate of the masses,” I snootily replied on e-vites to sports-based gatherings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018

The researchers created a hypothetical case of an African American man with sickle cell disease, a condition that typically requires opiate medications for control of painful flares.

From Slate ● May 30, 2018

And what opiate for his severe sufferings—what object for his strong passions—had he sought there?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

Finally, he has cited several global issues—food security, climate change, pandemics, the spread of opiates, and the perils of artificial intelligence—that can be solved only through U.S.-China cooperation.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2023

He said he used no opiates during his recovery, which apparently included a bout with MRSA, a drug-resistant bacteria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

Yet the most widely used analgesics today are essentially folk remedies that have served for centuries: morphine and other opiates derive from the opium poppy, and aspirin comes from willow bark.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2021

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