Sentences with phrase «from opium»

The candlestick is from Opium.

The artwork is from Opium.

My kimono is a bespoke piece from Opium Vintage, Motel Celestial Dress and Eye Bracelet from Trunk, T - Shirt dress Amanda Valentine, Roman Holiday Collar Amanda Valentine and Margaret Ellis Jewelry and gemstone bracelet from Seraphine Designs.

Opium is extracted from the Opium poppy, Papaver Somniferum.

Opioid drugs have the same narcotic effects as opiates but are not derived from opium, they are synthetic or partly synthetic, meaning the active ingredients (molecules) are manufactured via chemical synthesis.

Many of these are opiates, such as oxycodone and tramadol are semi-synthesised, drugs derived from opium which are in the same highly addictive opioid group as heroin.

The principal drugs that physicians today can offer to people with severe, persistent pain are opioids, which include both those derived from opium and others synthetically reproduced to have similar effects.

Derived from the opium poppy, opioids alleviate pain by binding to opioid receptors in the brain.

Funding from opium trade, the weakness and corruption of the Afghan government, the tacit support of many in Pakistan, who have no faith in the West's staying power, and the steady trickle of casualties highlight the need for a political solution.

Opiates are drugs that are derived from the opium poppy, and range from some of the most addictive painkillers such as codeine, oxycodone, and fentanyl to illicit drugs, such as heroin.

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

Not exact matches

Religion has been and always will be a tool used to motivate masses; most have all heard the opium of the masses quote - and just because it came from someone whose political views are contrarian to ours, doesn't make that statement less true.

Religion as belief in God is an opium of the people diverting man's energies from the needful tasks of this world to an illusory heaven above; it is a projection of man's inner insecurities, and consequently must be annihilated if man must be fully himself.

If Christianity be rightly understood and if Christians understand themselves correctly, things are exactly the opposite of what most Christians and non-Christians imagine: hope in the absolute future of God who is himself the eschatological salvation does not justify a fossilized conservatism which anxiously prefers the safe present to an unknown future; it is not a tranquillizing «opium for the people» in present sorrow; it is, on the contrary, the authoritative call to an ever - renewed, confident exodus from the present into the future, even in this world.

Historically, every society has discovered some means of temporary escape for its citizens, ranging from orgiastic dancing and dramatic rituals to alcohol and opium.

Then Scoville gets down to the real nitty - gritty: «Moreover, the pharmacist should remember that such conditions as are found in opium or cocaine habitues (not to say drunkards), often originate in the use of a prescription containing one of these drugs in some form, originally prescribed for a legitimate purpose, but renewed from time to time until the habit is established.»

Chatting during the boat cruise (from left), Brandon Barnholt of KeHE, a leading distributor of natural & organic, specialty and fresh products; Kim Jung, a co-founder of Rumi Spice, which produces saffron products and provides Afghan farmers with an alternative to growing opium poppies; Bill Weiland, CEO of Presence Marketing, who since the early 1990s has been a pioneering marketer and investor in the Good Food sector (that is a Chicago Cubs hat he is wearing); and Chef Paul Virant.

It was one of the houses of a guy called Lal Jan who was a prominent operator from the Ishaqzai tribe tribe in Helmand, who before the British arrived, controlled the Sanguin Bazaar where he levied a tax on most of the opium that went through it, the most lucrative thing going.

Opiates, of course, are natural or synthetic substances that bind to opiate receptors in the brain, and are chemically similar to alkaloid compounds derived from Papaver somniferum, or the opium poppy.

Vast deposits of rare earth and critical minerals found in Afghanistan by U.S. geologists under military cover could solve world shortages and get the country off opium and out from under Taliban control.

This gummy mass is scraped off the capsule and pressed into cakes of raw opium, from which some twenty alkaloids are obtained.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

Islamic traders introduced opium to China in the ninth century, and it was used for the next 800 years for the treatment of diarrhea resulting from dysentery.

First the patient should be bled in the arm, or leeches may be applied to the inflamed parts; afterwards take a handful of green rue, bruise it, and put it to the part affected; or take marshmallows a handful, camomile a handful, make a decoction in a pint of water, pour the liquor from the herbs, add two drams of the tincture of opium, bathe the part; afterwards apply the herbs as a poultice, or make a poultice of oatmeal and vinegar with a little sweet oil in it.

The ADT program «has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records; shifting farmers from growing opium poppy to saffron; and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.»

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In his work «Gymnasticos,» Filostratos (3rd - 2nd century BC) mentions that the doctors had been significantly helping the preparation of the Olympic Games athletes, and that the cooks had been preparing bread with spices from juice of the plant poppy opium.

Examining heroin's chemical structure provides clues to the manufacturing process used to turn opium poppies to heroin, but if manufacturers from different regions adopt similar processes, it's harder to tell where a sample came from.

Ancient people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily, while imports like cannabis and opium made from poppies spread through early international trade networks.

Opium, derived from poppies, has been used for millennia as a potent but addictive source of pain relief.

The program has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records, shifting farmers from growing poppy for opium, and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.

For example, «hard scientific evidence» shows that ancient people extracted opium from poppies, says David Collard, senior archaeologist at Jacobs, an engineering firm in Melbourne, Australia, who found signs of ritual opium use on Cyprus dating back more than 3000 years.

A description of opium imports was found in the historical record from the previous year (1628), as was a note from Lord Hosokawa which read, «I am dissatisfied with the opium ordered (from Nagasaki) so it shall be returned.»

It is thought that opium imported from Nagasaki was used for medicinal purposes, such as sedation, analgesia, cough suppression, and hypnosis.

Methylnaltrexone, a drug designed to reverse one of the most troubling problems caused by opium - based analgesics without interfering with pain relief, is rapidly effective at low doses with no apparent side effects report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the January 19, 2000, issue of JAMA.

Black Opium is the new highly addictive feminine fragrance from Yves Saint Laurent.

Today I put this very luxurious fragrance in the picture... Opium from Yves Saint Laurent... I was addicted at first smell!

Speakers at the event include executives from: Penthouse, White Label Dating, Sinofriends, MeetMoi, Jangl, Mary.com, Cupid's Coach, and the Opium Group, among others.

Why Online Dating Is The Opium Of The Masses With two out of every five singletons in Europe and the USA now turning to the internet to find a partner, it would be safe to say that the phenomenon of online dating has changed the social and dating habits of tens of millions of people from Newcastle to New York.

Blush was adapted by director Li Shaohong from a novel by Su Tong, a popular short - story writer whose better - known works include «Wives and Concubines,» the basis for Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern, and «Opium,» the basis for Ho Fan's Hong Kong feature The Szechuan Concubine.

The film is «From Hell,» an uncommonly creepy horror picture from the Hughes Brothers, who star Johnny Depp as an opium - smoking, possibly psychic London detective on the trail of Jack the RipFrom Hell,» an uncommonly creepy horror picture from the Hughes Brothers, who star Johnny Depp as an opium - smoking, possibly psychic London detective on the trail of Jack the Ripfrom the Hughes Brothers, who star Johnny Depp as an opium - smoking, possibly psychic London detective on the trail of Jack the Ripper.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, large amounts of heroin had been trafficked into the United States from France, who refined opium obtained from Turkey into the addictive, potentially deadly drug.

A notorious drunk and opium addict, Poe (John Cusack) careens through 19th century Baltimore dead broke, bitter from years of writer's block, and harassed by the locals for being a blustering has - been.

A notorious drunk and opium addict, Poe (John Cusack) careens through 19th century Baltimore dead broke, bitter from years of writers block, and harassed by the locals for being a blustering has - been.

They begin with sumptuous praise and move to detailing practical production challenges (from military airfield intrusions and a game market strike to Cocteau's bouts with eczema, jaundice, and opium), quoting from the director's diary where appropriate.

Matteo from The House of the Scorpion novels by Nancy Farmer: While trapped in the savage country of Opium, Matt realizes that he is actually the clone of the evil drug lord El Patrón.

There's plenty I disagree with, and I think Zhao makes some assertions that I find questionable, but it's not every book that ranges from Coca - Cola's entry into China to the Opium Wars to Beverly Hall's cheating scandal in Atlanta.

I know it's supposed to be basically a nonsensical story (and opium - fueled apparently) but I think there's actually a lot of wisdom to be taken from it.

But this dispersal began in earnest in the 1830s, just before the first Opium War, and the earliest immigrants were from a part of British India (northern Bihar) which became, under the rule of the East India Company, the single most important opium - growing region of the wOpium War, and the earliest immigrants were from a part of British India (northern Bihar) which became, under the rule of the East India Company, the single most important opium - growing region of the wopium - growing region of the world.

The best quote on the entire internet about this book is from a review by Sarah Skoletsky: «Here's my takeaway — gold mining is terrible work, opium seems pleasant, a dress weighing over 5 pounds should be looked into, and it rains a lot in New Zealand.»