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A chemical lullaby that bargains away your pain at compound interest.
means A drug derived from opium that dulls pain and induces sleep or euphoria, often dangerously habit-forming.
from From Latin opiatus, via Greek opion, meaning poppy juice — the literal weeping of the unripe poppy pod, scored at dawn so its milky sap could be harvested.
Marx lineHe called religion the opiate of the masses.
Poppy sourceComes from Papaver somniferum, the sleep-bringing flower.
Not opioidOpiates are natural; opioids include synthetic cousins too.