How to Use opiate in a Sentence

opiate

1 of 2 noun
Definition of opiatenext
Synonyms for opiatenext
  • Many see television as an opiate of the masses.
  • That’s when the pills started coming in, a lot of opiates.
    — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Lofink’s son died of a opiate and heroine overdose in 2014.
    — Yasmine Askari, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Unable to lose himself in his work, the narrator turns to the true opiate of the masses.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The main culprit has been the synthetic opiate fentanyl for the past few years.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 17 July 2019
  • The drug, which can be administered as a nasal spray, works by blocking the effects of opiates on the brain.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Fentanyl, a deadly opiate, was the drug that almost killed Rue last season when Mouse forced her to take it.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Two things set Oxycontin apart from the opiates that came before.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • The suspect was found to be driving under the influence of opiates.
    — Rachel Spacek, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
  • And eyeballs and data are the opiate of advertisers big and small.
    — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Former opiate users often have resistance to some of the drugs.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Set against the national opiate epidemic, the amount of drugs used by the show’s youngsters is eye-popping.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • In May of 2020, a friend found O'Neal, who had overdosed on a mix of morphine, opiates and pain medication, in her apartment.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic opiate; an amount the size of the tip of a sharpened pencil can be lethal.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In our frightening future, the metaverse, not religion, might serve as the opiate of the masses.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The hardest-core opiate user still wants to be accurate.
    — Monica Rodriguez, Fortune, 25 June 2018
  • Heroin is a scourge in east Africa; crack cocaine bedevils west Africa (though it is dwarfed by the abuse of prescription opiates).
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Most dogs show signs within 15 minutes of exposure to opiates, says the agency.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
  • One staff member is Catalina Navarro, 59, a mother of three who has been in recovery and off opiates for 25 years.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2023
  • It should be treated as an opiate, such as codeine, and be made available only by prescription.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Rieman struggled with alcohol addiction and opiate abuse, and had been using that night to take the edge off.
    — Rose Wagner, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • He was found to be under the influence of opiates and in possession of Xanax without proof of prescription.
    — Jake Richardson, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Like any opiate, fentanyl use can increase the risk of dependency and lead to abuse and addiction.
    — Tim Darnell, ajc, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Alex's lawyer blamed Alex's scheme on his 20-year opiate addiction and his depression after the murders of Maggie and Paul.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The cause of death was acute opiate and cocaine intoxication.
    — Rolfe Winkler, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Someone had just overdosed and a man was yelling into a crowd for the medication used to reverse an opiate overdose.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • For decades the main opiate on the streets in the Bay Area and western half of the country was easily recognizable black tar heroin that came up from Mexico.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Cara was addicted to opiates and wrote bad checks against her stepfather’s account.
    — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Yet while opiates have risks, there are no studies comparing them to marijuana, and untested claims in medicine don’t get the benefit of the doubt.
    — Peter B. Bach, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The pill's special coating allowed for the slow release of large doses of oxycodone, a powerful opiate that is twice as strong as morphine.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2021
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opiate

2 of 2 adjective
  • When Marie was at Lexington in the 40s, opiate users were mostly white men.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Keyes used the patches and a slue of other opiate prescriptions to soothe the pain from the chemotherapy.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Nebraska State Patrol seized 118 pounds of fentanyl in April, making it the largest seizure of the opiate drug in the state's history.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 26 May 2018
  • The same opiate dosage could knock out a first-time user while simply staving off an addict’s cravings.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Her pupils were constricted, which is a sign of opiate use, according to the statement.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 Nov. 2019
  • In the absence of nutrition and hydration, the body produces opiate-like substances that blunt hunger and thirst.
    — Jonel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The country already had some of the highest rates of opiate addiction in the world, according to the latest U.N. data.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • There's this book, Dreamland, about the opiate crisis in America.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 27 Mar. 2017
  • But L’Orvietan’s non-opiate ingredients might not have been just filler.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Opioid and opiate drugs bind to and activate opioid receptors in your brain, gut, and spinal cord.
    — Tessie Castillo, SELF, 6 Mar. 2018
  • It’s even been used as self-treatment for those going through opiate withdrawal.
    — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That Nearly Killed Me, has been in recovery for an opiate addiction for 17 years.
    — Ginny Graves, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Kelly’s Laurie may or may not spend all day on a massage chair — either to ease into an opiate-fueled high or to give-off Dr. Evil vibes.
    — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The 3-year-old child’s father arrived to take him, but was found to have an active warrant from Brook Park and also exhibited signs of opiate abuse.
    — cleveland, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Many of these tests of psilocybin are novel: The studies on anorexia, Alzheimer’s, opiate addiction, and Lyme disease will all be the first of their kind.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The claim is that this pharmacist received large numbers of heavy opiate prescriptions written by the same doctor.
    — Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The baby girl never showed signs of opiate withdrawal, and her drug tests came back negative, according to the complaint.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Sure enough, just a few years later, British doctor Harold Shipman was found guilty of murdering 15 of his patients with opiate injections.
    — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • Advocates say that the record highs in overdose deaths highlight the importance of adopting new strategies to combat the opiate epidemic.
    — Byeli Cahan, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Schlozman — who also suggested the film echoes the current desolation of the opiate crisis — agrees.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The study was co-funded by Intelligent Fingerprinting, which makes a drug test that uses the sweat from fingerprints to test for cocaine, cannabis, and opiate use.
    — Emily Price, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The current proposal allows for those who would get an opiate prescription from a physician for chronic pain to take advantage of the program.
    — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In 2017, Embry opened up on Twitter about his opiate addiction and encouraged others to seek help when needed.
    — Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • Kratom has also been helpful for people looking for a natural way to deal with opiate withdrawal.
    — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Iraq, the opiate epidemic, a brooding sense of financial crisis.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2021
  • More problematic is that some clinics, like Zong’s, offer a mix of services — treatment for both opiate addiction and pain.
    — Brian Rinker, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Combined with other disputes over human rights, trade and opiate production, the list of problem areas is daunting.
    — Matthew Lee, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • As heroin spreads, so does its antidote: Narcan, which rips off and replaces opiate molecules on the brain’s receptors.
    — Staff, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Some of these babies have neonatal opiate withdrawal syndrome (NOWS).
    — Ritika Samant, al, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Tennessee logs more opiate prescriptions per capita than any state in the nation except West Virginia.
    — Natasha Vaughn, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2017

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