Opiate
noun
A drug that reduces pain and can cause sleep, made from opium or similar synthetic substances.
Morphine is an opiate that is often used in medical settings for pain relief.
Often appears as...
- prescribed opiate
- opiate addiction
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Medical
noun
Anything that makes you avoid reality or stops you from thinking about problems.
He described television as the opiate of the masses, causing people to ignore societal issues.
Often appears as...
- opiate of the masses
- sedative influence
noun
A drug that reduces pain and can cause sleep, made from opium or similar synthetic substances.
Morphine is an opiate that is often used in medical settings for pain relief.
Often appears as...
- prescribed opiate
- opiate addiction
Usage tips
Medical
noun
Anything that makes you avoid reality or stops you from thinking about problems.
He described television as the opiate of the masses, causing people to ignore societal issues.
Often appears as...
- opiate of the masses
- sedative influence
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Usage
Used mainly in medical or healthcare settings to discuss medication.
The patient was given an opiate to manage the pain after surgery.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential for Addiction
Often associated with a high risk of dependency or addiction.
Doctors are careful when prescribing opiates due to their addictive nature.
Pro Tip 3/3Euphemism for Severity
May be used euphemistically to describe dangerous drugs more mildly.
Despite being an opiate, the drug has caused many overdoses.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Usage
Used mainly in medical or healthcare settings to discuss medication.
The patient was given an opiate to manage the pain after surgery.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential for Addiction
Often associated with a high risk of dependency or addiction.
Doctors are careful when prescribing opiates due to their addictive nature.
Pro Tip 3/3Euphemism for Severity
May be used euphemistically to describe dangerous drugs more mildly.
Despite being an opiate, the drug has caused many overdoses.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Usage
Used mainly in medical or healthcare settings to discuss medication.
The patient was given an opiate to manage the pain after surgery.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential for Addiction
Often associated with a high risk of dependency or addiction.
Doctors are careful when prescribing opiates due to their addictive nature.
Pro Tip 3/3Euphemism for Severity
May be used euphemistically to describe dangerous drugs more mildly.
Despite being an opiate, the drug has caused many overdoses.
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Your genes are not your...
and other things that can make it worse it can cause you to lose brain cells the usual suspects like saturated fat and sugar nicotine opiates cocaine too much alcohol and chronic stress your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle so you age less quickly your skin doesn't wrinkle as much your
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Dr. Dean Ornish: Your...
that can cause you to lose brain cells. The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress. Your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle, so you age less quickly. Your skin doesn't wrinkle as much. Your heart gets more blood flow.
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The future of...
to squander his life. They would want him to live more fully, which they were unable to do. And so he realized that there was a new way to honor their memory, which was to live as fully as possible. He also realized that he was telling himself a story that he was taking opiates for pain.
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Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
when most of the drugs that are now illegal were legal, the principal consumers of opiates in my country and others were middle-aged white women, using them to alleviate aches and pains when few other analgesics were available. And nobody thought about criminalizing it back then
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Political common ground...
but they have some truth, and it's truth found in the epidemic of opiates around the country, it's truth found in the spread of loneliness, it's the truth found in people whose lives are inverted. They peaked professionally at age 30, and it's all been downhill since.
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It's time to reclaim...
Because we know that social change only happens -- when we are awake enough to see that the house is on fire. The second principle is hope, and I want to say this about hope. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate.
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Extreme Rehab PIPE National...
interestingly when a person vomits profusely as what occurs here it causes the release of endorphins natural opiates being released in your brain which will probably help with the early symptoms of opiate withdrawal
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How the West can adapt...
was that we, the liberal democracies, we have succeeded, we don't have to change, we don't have to adapt, it's only the rest of the world that has to change and adapt. Unfortunately, like a dangerous opiate,
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What causes opioid...
similar to these opiates, including heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl. Whether synthetic or derived from opium, these compounds are collectively known as opioids.
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Attenborough Meets an...
father that's up to them you cynical even teams on opiate it look like hope people's attitudes towards the Indra changed over the years
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Your genes are not your...
and other things that can make it worse it can cause you to lose brain cells the usual suspects like saturated fat and sugar nicotine opiates cocaine too much alcohol and chronic stress your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle so you age less quickly your skin doesn't wrinkle as much your
Video examples
Dr. Dean Ornish: Your...
that can cause you to lose brain cells. The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress. Your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle, so you age less quickly. Your skin doesn't wrinkle as much. Your heart gets more blood flow.
Video examples
The future of...
to squander his life. They would want him to live more fully, which they were unable to do. And so he realized that there was a new way to honor their memory, which was to live as fully as possible. He also realized that he was telling himself a story that he was taking opiates for pain.
Video examples
Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
when most of the drugs that are now illegal were legal, the principal consumers of opiates in my country and others were middle-aged white women, using them to alleviate aches and pains when few other analgesics were available. And nobody thought about criminalizing it back then
Video examples
Political common ground...
but they have some truth, and it's truth found in the epidemic of opiates around the country, it's truth found in the spread of loneliness, it's the truth found in people whose lives are inverted. They peaked professionally at age 30, and it's all been downhill since.
Video examples
It's time to reclaim...
Because we know that social change only happens -- when we are awake enough to see that the house is on fire. The second principle is hope, and I want to say this about hope. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate.
Video examples
Extreme Rehab PIPE National...
interestingly when a person vomits profusely as what occurs here it causes the release of endorphins natural opiates being released in your brain which will probably help with the early symptoms of opiate withdrawal
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How the West can adapt...
was that we, the liberal democracies, we have succeeded, we don't have to change, we don't have to adapt, it's only the rest of the world that has to change and adapt. Unfortunately, like a dangerous opiate,
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What causes opioid...
similar to these opiates, including heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl. Whether synthetic or derived from opium, these compounds are collectively known as opioids.
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Attenborough Meets an...
father that's up to them you cynical even teams on opiate it look like hope people's attitudes towards the Indra changed over the years
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James D. Watson
American Scientist
An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together.
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Ann Coulter
American Journalist
We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this country now in places that never had an opiate problem. Why is that? Because this is brought in - because we do not have a border.
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John Wozniak
American Musician
Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.
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Eric Hoffer
American Writer
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
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Nick Nolte
American Actor
If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.
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Henry Miller
American Author
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Russell Baker
American Journalist
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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Erica Jong
American Novelist
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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James D. Watson
American Scientist
An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together.
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Ann Coulter
American Journalist
We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this country now in places that never had an opiate problem. Why is that? Because this is brought in - because we do not have a border.
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John Wozniak
American Musician
Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.
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Eric Hoffer
American Writer
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
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Nick Nolte
American Actor
If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.
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Henry Miller
American Author
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Russell Baker
American Journalist
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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Erica Jong
American Novelist
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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