opiate
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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
People who have co-occurring mental health disorders, especially ones that require medication, or who use treatments such as methadone and buprenorphine for opiate use disorder don’t always feel welcome in the recovery community.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2017
To date, 31 states have expanded Medicaid eligibility since 2014, helping to drive a historic reduction in the number of uninsured Americans — including many of those now struggling with opiate addiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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
Bonus: I need no more arthritis meds, no more opiates, no more braces and no cane.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
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
I went on to endure three more attacks all endured with no opiates.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
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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