opiate
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If sports don't trump religion as the opiate of the masses, they have, until recently, been at least the background music of most of our lives.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2020
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
The opiate of Zeus’s daughter bore this canny power.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Bonus: I need no more arthritis meds, no more opiates, no more braces and no cane.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
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
In activating these receptors, opiates prevent neurotransmitter release, thus blocking the transmission of the pain message to spinal cord neurons.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2021
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
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
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