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noun- A condition produced by the habitual use of an addictive drug derived from opium that is used as an analgesic and sedative

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  • She had been placed in this institution under legal restraint to be treated for morphinism, and, according to her brother, "pure cussedness."
  • The evils of morphinism are even greater than those of alcoholism, and their transmission no less sure.
  • Alcoholism and morphinism, or an uncontrollable desire for alcohol or opium in some form or other, are now recognized as evidences of degeneration.
  • The situation of alcoholism repeats itself in still more ruinous forms with morphinism and cocainism, vices which grow in this country to an alarming degree.
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