James D. Watson

An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together.

American Scientist

Ann Coulter

We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this country now in places that never had an opiate problem. Why is that? Because this is brought in - because we do not have a border.

American Journalist

John Wozniak

Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

American Musician

Eric Hoffer

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

American Writer

Nick Nolte

If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

American Actor

Henry Miller

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

American Author

Russell Baker

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Erica Jong

American Novelist

Used mainly in medical or healthcare settings to discuss medication.

Medical Usage

Often associated with a high risk of dependency or addiction.

Potential for Addiction

May be used euphemistically to describe dangerous drugs more mildly.

Euphemism for Severity

Used metaphorically to suggest something calming or distracting.

Metaphorical Meaning

Can reference societal critiques, like Karl Marx's 'opium of the people'.

Cultural Reference

Often implies a negative judgment about what's described as an opiate.

Critical Tone

 and other things that can make it worse it can cause you to lose brain cells the usual suspects like saturated fat and sugar nicotine opiates cocaine too much alcohol and chronic stress your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle so you age less quickly your skin doesn't wrinkle as much your

Your genes are not your...

 that can cause you to lose brain cells. The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress. Your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle, so you age less quickly. Your skin doesn't wrinkle as much. Your heart gets more blood flow.

Dr. Dean Ornish: Your...

 to squander his life. They would want him to live more fully, which they were unable to do. And so he realized that there was a new way to honor their memory, which was to live as fully as possible. He also realized that he was telling himself a story that he was taking opiates for pain.

The future of...

 when most of the drugs that are now illegal were legal, the principal consumers of opiates in my country and others were middle-aged white women, using them to alleviate aches and pains when few other analgesics were available. And nobody thought about criminalizing it back then

Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...

 but they have some truth, and it's truth found in the epidemic of opiates around the country, it's truth found in the spread of loneliness, it's the truth found in people whose lives are inverted. They peaked professionally at age 30, and it's all been downhill since.

Political common ground...

 Because we know that social change only happens -- when we are awake enough to see that the house is on fire. The second principle is hope, and I want to say this about hope. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate.

It's time to reclaim...

 interestingly when a person vomits profusely as what occurs here it causes the release of endorphins natural opiates being released in your brain which will probably help with the early symptoms of opiate withdrawal

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 was that we, the liberal democracies, we have succeeded, we don't have to change, we don't have to adapt, it's only the rest of the world that has to change and adapt. Unfortunately, like a dangerous opiate,

How the West can adapt...

 similar to these opiates, including heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl. Whether synthetic or derived from opium, these compounds are collectively known as opioids.

What causes opioid...

 father that's up to them you cynical even teams on opiate it look like hope people's attitudes towards the Indra changed over the years

Opiate