opium in English

noun
1
a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used as a narcotic and in medicine as an analgesic.
Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium , or morphia, but with little effect.

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1. Strychnine, arsenic, and opium are poison.

2. Opium is a narcotic drug.

3. But what kind of person would want opium?

4. Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine).

5. We have opium, tea and powder.

6. They were quickly successful in the ensuing "Opium War", and continued to monopolize the local opium trade.

7. I was booted out for smoking opium.

8. Opium is classed under the head of narcotic.

9. Warlord and opium forge the indissoluble bound.

10. No need to harvest opium from foreign countries.

11. That man gave her a dose of opium.

12. The teachers, becoming demoralized, took to smoking opium.

13. Opium Alkaloids, derived from crude Papaver somniferum L

14. The architect must have been an opium fiend.

15. Their numbers were swelled by those fleeing the turmoil caused by the First Opium War (1839–1842) and Second Opium War (1856–1860).

16. Some say her old injury drove her to opium.

17. We opened the money vault and burnt the opium dens.

18. He abolished onerous taxes and puritanically banned prostitution, opium, gambling, even liquor.

19. He was forced to take opium to kill the pain.

20. Burn down the opium dens, open the money vault, right?

21. Hong Kong was ceded to Britain after the Opium War.

22. Compared to the large opium fields nearby, the bikes were harmless.

23. The refinement of raw opium yields other drugs, such as morphine.

24. Marx once described religion as the 'opium of the people'.

25. but I don't use opium anymore - it only eases the pain.

26. They use opium as a sedative, rather than as a narcotic.

27. 5 Lower incentive for opium and higher incentive for licit crops all of this has caused a voluntary shift by farmers out of opium into licit crops.

28. And opium and opiate derivatives just came along with it, y'know.

29. Examples of Agonist drugs include heroin, oxycodone, methadone, hydrocodone, morphine, and opium

30. 22 They use opium as a sedative,[www.Sentencedict.com] rather than as a narcotic.

31. The history of Humen is linked to the First Opium War (1839–1842).

32. Besotter-Opium? What the heck? More importantly, notice the base domain: www.amasonreward.com

33. You can't deny the fact that you were the one manufacturing the opium.

34. Acetic Anhydride - a compound that is needed in order to refine opium into heroin

35. By 1839 the volume of opium being smuggled into China had increased vastly.

36. After the Opium Wars, Chinese breeds were brought to England and crossed with local chickens.

37. It, like the opium , will hocus your nerves, blur your eyes and confuse your mind.

38. The melancholiacs are less lethargic since being weaned off the large doses of opium you had them on.

39. 17 Needles and Opium is a collage of physical and visual images, film footage and low-key monologue.

40. To turn opium into heroin... it's exposed to hot acetic anhydride, which produces 18 neutral impurities.

41. They inveighed against slavery, concubinage , foot binding, arranged marriage, cruel punishments, and the use of opium.

42. Analgesics Opioid Analgesics Natural opium alkaloids Semi- synthetic opiates synthetic opioids Non opioid Analgesics 4

43. Afghanistan and Myanmar continued to account for the majority of illicit opium poppy cultivation worldwide.

44. “The value of the opium imported alone exceed[ed] that of all of the commodities exported.

45. New missionary activity only set in after the Second Opium War in the mid-19th century.

46. Other examples of opioid Agonists, sometimes referred to as “full Agonists,” are oxycodone, morphine and opium

47. Several large opium seizures were made via the commercial air freight stream and the courier mode.

48. 12 Sino-Japanese War, Sino-French War, the Opium War, so that our "mother" gradually weakened.

49. Soon, the outsiders’ diseases —measles, syphilis, and others— along with opium addiction and alcoholism, devastated the tribesmen.

50. Befuddle Meaning: "confuse," originally "to confuse with strong drink or opium" (by 1832), from be- + fuddle