Words similar to opium

Example sentences for: opium

How can you use “opium” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

His attempts to limit the opium trade met with resistance by the Chinese in Bau, who revolted.
Though poppies have legitimate commercial use (poppy-seed bagels, for instance), the feds are paranoid that gardeners will harvest them for opium.
Beginning in 1842, Western traders allowed in after the Opium Wars built Gulangyu into a virtual European town, with their own schools, churches, and hospitals.
The author grows his own opium poppies, and wonders if he's going to be prosecuted.
Its orchestrations, especially David Tom's guitar loops, are as near as anyone's ever come to the sensation of smoking, even if by the time she gets halfway through the Hollies' "The Air That I Breathe" (click to hear it)--"Peace came upon me/ And it lee-ee-ee-eaves me weak"--she seems to be unwinding from a heavy night at the opium den rather than down to her last Marlboro Light.