Verb (used with object) : He had used liquor to narcotize his anxieties.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : a remedy that does not heal but merely narcotizes.    From Dictionary.com. 

The social, economic and political realities in the Americas are already "narcotised".    From Wordnik.com.  [AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media] Reference

But the patient is neither in the state of asphyxia, nor is he narcotised, nor drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Out on the roads converging onto the site, it was a vision from Transylvania: staggering bodies, bloodless faces, and expressionless, narcotised eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]

It's like all my narcotised Christmases have come at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Junkhead slowly crumble away, as he sinks into a narcotised, self-absorbed quagmire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference

"The sight of cleavages gets patients narcotised and distracted from the pain rather quickly," she explains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

For example, a nerve when narcotised by chloroform exhibits a diminishing response as the action of the anæsthetic proceeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

The atmosphere is opiated; life is a lounge; everything comes and goes in carelessness; all the worshippers are narcotised in thoughtlessness, or sunk in profound and perilous sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference

After he had hollowed out the heap till it looked like an eagle's nest, he spread another pile of flowers over himself, and went to sleep, pleasantly narcotised by all the sweet scents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Miniatures] Reference

The leaves were in a narcotised condition, for on bits of meat being placed on two of them, there was no inflection in 3 hrs. 15 m., and even after 13 hrs. 15 m. only a few of the outer tentacles were slightly inflected; but this degree of movement shows that the leaves had not been killed by an exposure during 10 hrs. to the vapour of camphor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

But while there's an obvious parallel between that war and Bush's wars today, and one I meant to draw with this book, it's difficult for me to identify any existential connection between the hysterical state of things back then and the narcotised country I find myself living in today, one that barely managed to rouse itself from its sleep to vote for the superior Barack Obama rather than the stumbling, bumbling John McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference