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How to use the word Opiate in a Sentence?

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CBD not only manages the anxiety and cue/craving cycle, it also diminishes the original pain and inflammation that leads to opiate use in the first place.

Julie Holland

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you look at the effects, it's not really the expected opioid effects, we see seizures, tachycardia [ rapid heartbeat ], hypertension, agitation. If it were an opiate, we would expect respiratory depression.

Henry Spiller

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You'd be hiding under a rock if you didn't realize there's a big opioid crisis going on, and this is one of the treatments for that addiction, a number of these programs are trying to expand to accommodate a lot of these opiate-addicted patients, so I would expect to see more of this.

Henry Spiller

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Doctors became very vigilant then about diagnosing pain and prescribing pain medication, and you can see a huge uptick of the amount of opiate prescriptions.

Elizabeth Drew

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In practice, we see soccer moms, we see professionals, we see teachers, we see young college students and high school students. Anyone can develop an addiction to an opiate.

Elizabeth Drew

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There are lots of people who have not yet gotten an opiate and we need to protect them from the risk of getting addicted.

Thomas Frieden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Clare Boothe Luce

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

A. W. Tozer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion."

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13 years ago

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