opiates
- plural of opiate.
Example Sentences
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Bonus: I need no more arthritis meds, no more opiates, no more braces and no cane.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
In activating these receptors, opiates prevent neurotransmitter release, thus blocking the transmission of the pain message to spinal cord neurons.
From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2021
This is, to put it mildly, a measured way to respond to a question about McKinsey’s record suggesting ways to “turbocharge” sales of opiates and identifying online dissidents for repressive regimes.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2019
Get these pain patients off opiates and off gut-destroying doses of NSAIDs and on this safe effective alternative?
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2017
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
