Opium
noun
A strong drug made from poppy plants, used to relieve severe pain or for pleasure.
The doctor prescribed opium to help with the intense pain.
Often appears as...
- use opium
- prescribed opium
Usage tips
Medical
noun
A thing that makes people ignore unpleasant realities.
Some people use television as an opium, to forget about their problems.
Often appears as...
- opium of the people
- opium of the masses
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
noun
A strong drug made from poppy plants, used to relieve severe pain or for pleasure.
The doctor prescribed opium to help with the intense pain.
Often appears as...
- use opium
- prescribed opium
Usage tips
Medical
noun
A thing that makes people ignore unpleasant realities.
Some people use television as an opium, to forget about their problems.
Often appears as...
- opium of the people
- opium of the masses
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Medicinal Use
Opium is prescribed legally by doctors for pain relief.
After the surgery, opium was used to manage the patient's pain.
Pro Tip 2/3Illegal Recreation
Opium can be used illegally for recreational purposes.
Opium dens were notorious places for illegal drug use in the past.
Pro Tip 3/3Addiction Risk
Using opium may lead to a high risk of addiction.
He struggled with opium addiction for many years.
Pro Tip 1/3Medicinal Use
Opium is prescribed legally by doctors for pain relief.
After the surgery, opium was used to manage the patient's pain.
Pro Tip 2/3Illegal Recreation
Opium can be used illegally for recreational purposes.
Opium dens were notorious places for illegal drug use in the past.
Pro Tip 3/3Addiction Risk
Using opium may lead to a high risk of addiction.
He struggled with opium addiction for many years.
Pro Tip 1/3Medicinal Use
Opium is prescribed legally by doctors for pain relief.
After the surgery, opium was used to manage the patient's pain.
Pro Tip 2/3Illegal Recreation
Opium can be used illegally for recreational purposes.
Opium dens were notorious places for illegal drug use in the past.
Pro Tip 3/3Addiction Risk
Using opium may lead to a high risk of addiction.
He struggled with opium addiction for many years.
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Evgeny Morozov: How the...
how people are getting more active because of the Internet. Rarely hear about cyber hedonism, for example, how people are becoming passive. Why? Because they somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses
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Where does creativity...
Sometimes I get help from the universe, it seems. My mother would say it was the ghost of my grandmother from the very first book, because it seemed I knew things I was not supposed to know. Instead of writing that the grandmother died accidentally, from an overdose of opium, while having too much of a good time,
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How does anesthesia...
all describe early anesthetics containing things like opium poppy, mandrake fruit, and alcohol. Today, anesthesiologists often combine regional, inhalational and intravenous agents to get the right balance for a surgery. Regional anesthesia blocks pain signals from a specific part of the body
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The history of tea -...
to maximize their profits. At first, Britain paid for all this Chinese tea with silver. When that proved too expensive, they suggested trading tea for another substance, opium. This triggered a public health problem within China as people became addicted to the drug.
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Rory Stewart: Why...
in an opium den." And the father says, "I'm very sorry. Yes, it's true, I lied. But how can I tell an eight-year-old boy that his father is a politician?" Now, as a politician myself, standing in front of you, or indeed, meeting any stranger anywhere in the world,
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Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
Cotton does not compete with opium; a t-shirt does. And we need to understand, it's the value chain. Look, the ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of hearing about microcredit. It is important,
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Christianity in China PIPE...
wanted to have the right to sell the Chinese people drugs as a result of the opium wars this city many others like it were open to foreign trade with large areas effectively under
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Monika Bulaj: The hidden...
What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is opium?
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Singing from the...
like all the best cities Hong Kong has a Soho as you enter Soho you're on Elgin Street named after an English Lord for his role in the opium wars in China where he
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The Global Partnership...
and a yokel gbit aya nee-chan she opium if we look after the ocean the ocean will look after us the world needs a new philosophy not a
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Evgeny Morozov: How the...
how people are getting more active because of the Internet. Rarely hear about cyber hedonism, for example, how people are becoming passive. Why? Because they somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses
Video examples
Where does creativity...
Sometimes I get help from the universe, it seems. My mother would say it was the ghost of my grandmother from the very first book, because it seemed I knew things I was not supposed to know. Instead of writing that the grandmother died accidentally, from an overdose of opium, while having too much of a good time,
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How does anesthesia...
all describe early anesthetics containing things like opium poppy, mandrake fruit, and alcohol. Today, anesthesiologists often combine regional, inhalational and intravenous agents to get the right balance for a surgery. Regional anesthesia blocks pain signals from a specific part of the body
Video examples
The history of tea -...
to maximize their profits. At first, Britain paid for all this Chinese tea with silver. When that proved too expensive, they suggested trading tea for another substance, opium. This triggered a public health problem within China as people became addicted to the drug.
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Rory Stewart: Why...
in an opium den." And the father says, "I'm very sorry. Yes, it's true, I lied. But how can I tell an eight-year-old boy that his father is a politician?" Now, as a politician myself, standing in front of you, or indeed, meeting any stranger anywhere in the world,
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Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
Cotton does not compete with opium; a t-shirt does. And we need to understand, it's the value chain. Look, the ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of hearing about microcredit. It is important,
Video examples
Christianity in China PIPE...
wanted to have the right to sell the Chinese people drugs as a result of the opium wars this city many others like it were open to foreign trade with large areas effectively under
Video examples
Monika Bulaj: The hidden...
What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is opium?
Video examples
Singing from the...
like all the best cities Hong Kong has a Soho as you enter Soho you're on Elgin Street named after an English Lord for his role in the opium wars in China where he
Video examples
The Global Partnership...
and a yokel gbit aya nee-chan she opium if we look after the ocean the ocean will look after us the world needs a new philosophy not a
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves - their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles.
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Dennis C. Blair
American Public Servant
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
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Edmund Burke
Irish Statesman
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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Antonin Artaud
French Dramatist
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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Thomas de Quincey
English Author
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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Robert Trout
American Journalist
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
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Tom Robbins
American Author
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
Optimism is the opium of the people.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves - their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles.
Quote examples
Dennis C. Blair
American Public Servant
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
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Edmund Burke
Irish Statesman
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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Antonin Artaud
French Dramatist
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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Thomas de Quincey
English Author
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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Robert Trout
American Journalist
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
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Tom Robbins
American Author
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
Optimism is the opium of the people.
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