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• n  a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative

• Nearly one of every two men on earth lives in thralldom to a brand of totalitarianism that condemns religion as the opiate of the masseswhich has stirred some to heroic defense .
• William Kristol went straight for the main chance, positing Obama as a direct descendant of yes Karl Marx, who famously proclaimed religion to be the "opiate" of the masses.
• Heroin, which accounts for 71% of opiate abuse, continues to be the main problem drug worldwide.

News & Articles

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• Organizations receive $300K grant to stem opiate addiction in county
  Wednesday June 12, 2013 NORTH ADAMS -- The solution is part awareness, part treatment, part prevention and part judicial -- and all better funded now that the area has been awarded a multi-year state grant to stem opiate addiction in Berkshire County. Worth $100,000 per year over three years, the grant was awarded recently by the state Department of Public Health to the Berkshire Public
  June 12, 2013 - North Adams Transcript
• Twin Cities Public TV to air 'Heroin at Home,' doc on dramatic rise in Minn. opiate abuse
  ST. PAUL, Minn. †Twin Cities Public Television will air programs this month examining the dramatic rise in heroin and prescription opiate abuse in Minnesota.
  June 11, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• O’Neill Plastic Surgery Now Offering Exparel to Help Manage Post-Surgical Pain
  Exparel, the non-opiate pain medication, is now being offered at O’Neill Plastic Surgery for Charleston, cosmetic surgery patients. (PRWeb June 11, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10811213.htm
  June 11, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Ron Wood in ABC Action News
  Wood adds: "Jo kept asking me, 'When are we going to get rid of Keith?' But we couldn't leave him there alone, in an opiate haze."
• Karl Marx in The Ranger
  Osorio stopped going to church for about a year, believing religion was, as Marx said, "the opiate of the masses."
• Russell Brand in NME.com
  In this film I play Aldous Snow, a fictional rockstar,Brand told the audience. "Yes, you heard it right, fictional! Created from my own opiate-addled past. Let's hear it for opiates! But I was helped also by real rock stars, some of whom...