Opiate is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a noun referring to any drug that is related to morphine, such as codeine and oxycodone, and is used to relieve severe pain. It can also be used as an adjective to describe something that calms or pacifies, such as an opiate effect. Example sentence: The doctor prescribed an opiate to ease her pain.
The Parisian tradition of opiate usage reached its zenith in the 1950s when black jazz musicians flocked to Paris, fleeing the racism of the United States, and finding in Paris cheap and good-quality heroin.
Like all good doctors, she knows that time is less a healer than an opiate, taking the edge off suffering, dulling the memory.
When provided with the appropriate chemical precursor, the modified yeast cranked out morphine and another opiate, codeine.
States have struck out with their own efforts to expand treatment and harm reduction, but these programmes can be controversial, labour-intensive, and hard to scale up.New Mexico, for example, has a harm-reduction programme that trains participants (mostly heroin users) in rescue techniques, and equips them with doses of naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of an opiate overdose.
Many rural communities are plagued by drugs, particularly amphetamines and OxyContin (an opiate pain-killer).
In the formal sessions, any concern for China was merely hinted at in an endless calls for more "transparency", opiate of the security classes.As an aspiration, transparency appears inarguable, so it was refreshing to corner a senior Chinese in the People's Liberation Army willing to argue with it.
Since 1998 global consumption of both cannabis and cocaine has risen by about 50% and opiate consumption has nearly trebled, according to the UNODC's own figures.Mr Calderón's comments sum up what seems to be a growing consensus: stopping or even seriously reducing drug consumption has so far proved impossible, so it is time to focus on ways of making that consumption less harmful.
The UN estimates that annual opiate production almost all of which is from Afghanistan jumped to about 8,900 tonnes in 2007, having been flat at around 4,500 tonnes over the previous decade.
They relate a dismal roll-call of anxiety, stress, depression, alcohol and opiate addictions, child abuse and suicides.
Even their pain was indifferently dealt with, in case they were turned into opiate addicts in their final days.Related items Ethics and politics: Whose life is it, anyway?Oct 30th 2003 The right to die: But who says?Oct 16th 2003 Euthanasia: Last rightsNov 15th 2001 On death and dying: The final hurryMar 20th 1997Dr Kübler-Ross set out to change this.
Half will receive methadone, an artificial opiate; the others will get daily injections of heroin.
