opium

Converse of object

• smoke: I therefore kept thinking that if only I smoked some Opium the pain would disappear.
• grow: Indian farmers were often forced to destroy other crops in order to grow opium for the company the Indian cotton industry suffered badly.
• buy: Britain fought a war with China to force them to buy Opium from British traders!
• produce: What are the effects on their strategy if local opium growers attempt to produce illegal opium on their own?
• take: Details such as these were designed to explain the painful circumstances that first led him to take opium.
• use: The Chinese introduced harsh laws to try and stop their people using opium.

Adjective modifier

• Afghan: The flood of Afghan opium has swamped Pakistani security forces.
• prepared: He gathered irresistible force and made the foreigners disgorge over a thousand tons of prepared opium.
• raw: To produce the medicine the raw opium has to be purified.
• illicit: In recent years, the war-torn nation has been the main global source of illicit opium.

Modifies a noun

• poppy: Opium poppy was grown on 80,000 hectares of arable land - an eight per cent increase on 2002.
• den: Afterward he took me into his opium den next door.
• alkaloid: Codeine is an opium alkaloid, with activity similar to, but weaker than morphine.
• cultivation: Almost 8.7 per cent of the Afghan population was involved in opium cultivation in 2005.
• addict: He had been a follower of Confucius and an opium addict and his wife had demonic problems.
• derivative: The review of undertakings in the opium derivatives market was conducted pursuant to that duty.

Noun used with modifier

• smoking: Life appeared so worthless and pointless and I kept thinking about smoking opium again to make me feel better.

Possessives

• world: For example, a large quality of the world's opium is grown in the region.

Preposition: of

• mass: The communists who believed that religion was ' the opium of the masses ' , pulled down many churches.
• people: A great man famously said " Religion is the opium of the people " .