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- ALKALOID:
- Any organic agent isolated from plants that contains nitrogen and reacts with an acid to form a salt.
- ANALGESIC:
- A type of drug that alleviates pain without loss of consciousness.
- DROSS:
- The residue remaining in the pipe after prepared opium has been smoked.
- NARCOTIC:
- A natural or synthetic drug that has properties similar to opium or opium derivatives.
- OPIATE:
- Drug derived directly from opium and used in its natural state, without chemical modification. Opiates include morphine, codeine, thebaine, noscapine, and papaverine.
- OPIOID:
- A drug, hormone, or other chemical substance having sedative or narcotic effects similar to those containing opium or its derivatives; a natural brain opiate.
- OPIOPHOBIA:
- The fear of patients becoming addicted to their narcotic pain medication.
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