narcotic

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It has an intense narcotic effect, which is why people abuse it.

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Quick take

a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of narcotic gathered in one view.

noun

a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction

adjective

of or relating to or designating narcotics; "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor"

adjective

inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for narcotic.

noun

a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction

adjective

of or relating to or designating narcotics; "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor"

adjective

inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs"

adjective

inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech"

Example sentences

It has an intense narcotic effect, which is why people abuse it.

She is hooked up to an IV narcotic machine to minimize the pain.

There might be narcotic drugs that take you heaven without killing you, and you might pay for it etc etc.

It's popular in a lot of places and it's barely a narcotic, maybe half a step up from coffee.

Kind of like how they put acetaminophen in some narcotic painkillers.

There may be one or two exceptions, but they certainly aren't the companies making narcotic painkillers.

Removing all safe narcotic painkillers from the market damages addicts and is unethical.

The danger posed by abusing narcotic painkillers is disputed by nobody.

Despite the assertions of low abuse potential, the reality is that people do become addicted to narcotic pain killers.

The legal and medical definitions of narcotic are not the same, unfortunately.

Reading wikipedia suggests only 90mg or higher unit dosage falls under Schedule II narcotic.

I'm not sure how much you know about the drug business, but no part of the chain of illegal narcotic production, from the farmers to the chemists to the smugglers to the dealers, is quick or easy.

Even today we see a push to either reformulate narcotic painkiller medications to make abuse difficult/impossible, or bundle them with acetaminophen/paracetamol.

Any person who violates this subsection may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both, except that if he commits such offense after a prior conviction under this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter, or a prior conviction for any drug or narcotic offense chargeable under the law of any State, has become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than 15 days but not more than 2 years, and shall be fined a minimum of $2,500, except, further, that if he commits such offense after two or more prior convictions under this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter, or two or more prior convictions for any drug or narcotic offense chargeable under the law of any State, or a combination of two or more such offenses have become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than 90 days but not more than 3 years, and shall be fined a minimum of $5,000.