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noun- A state of stupor, insensibility, or unconsciousness produced by the influence of drugs or other chemicals from which recovery is possible.

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  • Opium so employed does not produce narcotism, and does not constipate the bowels.
  • It inhabits dry places, especially birchwoods, and pinewoods, having a bright red upper surface studded with brown warts; and when taken as a poisonous agent it causes...
  • This was in 1860; but only four years afterwards we find the English physician quoted above, Dr. Anstie, in his "Stimulants and Narcotics," recognising "a kind of chronic...
  • Such deceptions come through drunkenness and narcotism.
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