Words similar to opium

Example sentences for: opium

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"Spiritual opium," Beijing called it.
The conservative Paris daily Le Figaro ran a long philosophical essay by French academic Jean d'Ormesson suggesting football, having supplanted religion and patriotism, is the new "opium of the people."
Chanel, does not smell from cocoa; I haven't tried opium, but cannot imagine that Opium smells much like an opium den; and it is impossible to guess at what the millennium will smell like.
An added lure was Francis Light’s decision to import large quantities of opium from India.
The Opium Wars ended in 1842 with the Treaty of Nanking (later denounced as “unequal”).