Sentence examples for addicted to opium from inspiring English sources

Korpa became addicted to opium after her husband Mohammed's heroin addiction meant no money was coming in to feed their seven children.

Secretly addicted to opium, Siu-Yong fights a stealth war against her husband's noxious new ideas.

At least 2m Iranians are addicted to opium and its derivatives, morphine and heroin.

Yes, Cocteau was addicted to opium, and at one time Davis was addicted to heroin.

Worn down by loss, their talents and ambitions swamped, many became addicted to opium; others just degenerated into dementia.

In her youth, Addie had fled to China, where she remained for years and became addicted to opium.

Herbert D. Kleber, director of the division on substance abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University, said he was skeptical about the efficacy of ibogaine in treating substance abusers, including those addicted to opium-based drugs like heroin.

In his new Mozart/Murder book, Becker points out the continuities between the middle-class housewives of the early twentieth century who became addicted to the opium products then sold over the counter for "women's troubles" and black youths who now take essentially the same kinds of drug, in a different world: "When middle-class women could buy opium, they did, and they got addicted.

In the 1800 s it was widely acknowledged that in the USA more women than men were addicted to opiates (opium, morphine, laudanum or heroin).

Fighting the excruciating pain of rheumatic gout, Collins became addicted to laudanum — drinkable opium — which took its toll over time, so that the phantasms and doppelgängers of his fiction slipped into his actual life.

Helena's health was not robust, and she was addicted to the drugs opium and laudanum.