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:

The USAT runs a front-pager reporting that as part of the just-concluded budget agreement, U.S. researchers will receive $23 million to continue work on a drug-eating fungus that could destroy opium poppies and coca plants.
The author grows his own opium poppies, and wonders if he's going to be prosecuted.
His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.
In 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French troops forcibly occupied Beijing and exacted treaty rights.
In the aftermath of the Opium Wars, trade in “foreign mud” was resumed at a level even higher than before, although the major traders, by now respectable and diversified, stopped their trading in 1907.