Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and again painkilling drugs have been touted as more potent than morphine and less likely to cause addiction, only to show, after careful trials, the same drawbacks as the invaluable but dangerous derivative of the opium poppy. Last week Secretary Arthur Flemming of Health, Education and Welfare got himself out on a limb by announcing as "an exciting breakthrough" the development of a new analgesic at the National Institutes of Health. Known so far only as NIH 7519, it appears, he said, to have "painkilling power at least ten times that of morphine." (By this phrasing, scientists...
...undeniable advantage. Member of a chemical family called benzomorphans, it is entirely synthetic. If it proves as valuable a morphine substitute as Secretary Flemming hopes, it will free the U.S. of dependence on imported opium, which is becoming harder to get in world markets and might be cut off entirely in global...
...juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave to the trammels of opium...
...helping him to rob her own guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self-indulgent man who loved nothing but humanity . . . She had been unlucky. She could have loved a gambler, an opium addict, a common thief, a drunkard-but no, it had to be an idealist...
...Greetings, opium of the people, scum of the old order," said Arthur Rimbaud...