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

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

And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

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