opiate

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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

This kind of faith — shared by many faiths — is not an opiate or a self-help manual.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022

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

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë