noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drug/heroin/morphine etc addict
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a recovering heroin addict
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alcohol thus resembles opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin, all of which target the endorphin system.
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Besides which, a blood test would show up all the morphine in his body.
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Furthermore, large interspecies variations exist not only in the metabolism of morphine but also in the distribution of opioid receptors.
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In contrast, morphine can be deadly if a little too much is taken.
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It was he who had given Billy morphine .
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She drifted off again, back to her private morphine place.
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The hypothesis that paradoxical pain is caused by abnormal metabolism of morphine is plausible but built on shaky foundations.
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We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea.