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o·pi·um
/ ˈōpēəm/
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n.
a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used as a narcotic and in medicine as an analgesic.
PHRASES:
the opium of the people
(or masses) see the opiate of the masses at opiate.
ORIGIN: late Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion ‘poppy juice,’ from opos ‘juice,’ from an Indo-European root meaning ‘water.’
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Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Edward R. Slack, Jr. Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco...the Western scholarly literature on opium in China was both numerically meager...chronologically narrow. Arthur Waley's The Opium War through Chinese Eyes and Chang Hsin...
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Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Pacific Affairs; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; OPIUM, STATE, AND SOCIETY: China's Narco...8248-2361-3. The profound effects that opium had on Chinese society in the first half...description of the Guomingdang's evolving opium policy He points out that among the many...
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Opium cultivation down by a fifth in Afghanistan.
News Wire article from: UzReport; 8/27/2008; 700+ words
; ...issued its summary of the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008. The report shows a 19 per cent decrease in opium cultivation to 157,000 hectares, down...kg/ha (up from 42.5 kg in 2007), opium production has dropped less dramatically...
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Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of World History; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839...Toronto for a groundbreaking conference on opium in East Asia jointly sponsored by the University...came up with the idea after discovering that opium was not only a topic of mutual interest...
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Opium and its alkaloids
Magazine article from: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...reviews the history and pharmacognosy of opium, and describes the chemistry, pharmacology, and therapeutic uses of the major opium alkaloids. An abbreviated form of the...5319)]. HISTORY Sumeria and Assyria The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum L. (Papaveraceae...
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Opium present on Brandeis campus
News Wire article from: University Wire; 4/29/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Justice) (U-WIRE) WALTHAM, Mass. -- Opium: The word conjures up images of 19th century...The Quiet American." While heroin, an opium derivative, was widely publicized as the...waifish supermodels in the early 1990s, opium itself has been popularly portrayed in...
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Opium and Empire: Some Evidence from Colonial-Era Asian Stock and Commodity Markets.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the article assesses the impact of the opium trade on the economies of colonial Malaya...trade are significantly correlated with opium price changes, as are prices for labour...commodities such as tin and gambier. However, opium price changes explain, at most, only...
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Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Pacific Affairs; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; OPIUM, EMPIRE AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950. By Carl A. Trocki. New York...take another look at the birth and development of the opium trade along with its more obvious implications. Going...
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Opium-lined coffin seized in St. Paul; A suspect told authorities the drugs were for his ulcers, the coffin is for his mother.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 9/18/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Airport turned out to be a coffin containing opium, a customs and a drug agent were assigned...Yang, 41, told the agents he smoked opium every day for ulcers. The coffin was for...Alaska, he told agents. The 15 pounds of opium, which was in the lining of the coffin...
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Opium takes over entire Afghan families, villages
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain...is already curled up at the lip of the opium pipe. Beg, 65, breathes in and exhales...their daughter. The daughter blows the opium smoke into the baby's tiny mouth. The...
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opium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
opium substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy , Papaver somniferum. Opium varies in color from yellow to dark brown and has a characteristic...
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Opium Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Opium Wars Opium Wars is a term referring to two wars that Britain fought against imperial...the Chinese authorities to stop the growing influx of foreign-produced opium. The real cause of the first Opium War (1839 – 1842), also...
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Opium
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
Opium Opium is a drug that is derived from the poppy plant. Its pain-relieving qualities have been known since ancient times. Opium was used by prehistoric inhabitants of Switzerland, by Egyptians by about...
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Shanghai Opium Conference
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
SHANGHAI OPIUM CONFERENCE The 1909 Shanghai Opium Commission was the first multinational drug-control initiative...Russia, to address the illegal production, trade, and use of Opium in China. As a commission the participants could only recommend...
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Opium Poppy
Book article from: Plant Sciences
Opium Poppy The opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum ) was known to humans before the time of the...to treat pain and dysentery. The time and place of the origin of the opium poppy is a mystery. It probably arose in central Europe during the late...
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