"When you take opiates, you can't feel real things."

She seemed to be struggling with her concentration, as if she had been taking opiates.

"They don't take opiates for pleasure, but to regulate emotions that are out of control," said Dr. Khantzian.

I cannot sleep at night now, and have to take opiates when it thunders.

Samuel Bard advised emptying the bowels, lying horizontal and taking opiates.

Pipe dream refers to visions experienced as a result of taking opiates (referring to the opium pipe).

If you stop taking opiates abruptly, you may develop nausea, sweating, chills, diarrhea, and shaking.

However, there is some controversy about how great the risk of addiction is when someone takes opiates for pain rather than as a street drug.

She began to take opiates for the pain, laudanum (an opium concoction) then morphine, commonly prescribed at the time.

He began taking opiates at an early age and graduated to morphine (then considered to be non-habitforming and a safe drug) very soon thereafter.