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just for future reference, you want to use "opiate" not "opium".

my bad if you already knew that.



Opiate

Any of various sedative narcotics containing opium or one or more of its natural or synthetic derivatives.
A drug, hormone, or other chemical substance having sedative or narcotic effects similar to those containing opium or its derivatives: a natural brain opiate. Also called opioid.
Something that dulls the senses and induces relaxation or torpor.

Opium

A bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug prepared from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
Something that numbs or stupefies.

Could you provide a link to his quote? I was going off of memory so I was probably wrong.