opiate

Example Sentences

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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

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

A reader in attendance, Hiawatha Bradley, ventured that the opiate of the masses “just has to be technology,” adding, “your brain is wired to the phone.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 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