Category:Opiates

Opiates are narcotic drugs, whether naturally occurring (usually derived from plants, like poppies) or synthesized in a bathtub lab.

MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains  

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,

  Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains  

One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

John Keats. 1795–1821

Ode to a Nightingale