God's medicine
Historical slang for opium, reflecting both the drug's powerful pain-relieving qualities and its divine connotations in various cultures, particularly through the ancient association of poppies with sleep and death.
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Historical slang for opium, reflecting both the drug's powerful pain-relieving qualities and its divine connotations in various cultures, particularly through the ancient association of poppies with sleep and death. The phrase captures the reverence with which opium was regarded in an era before widespread understanding of addiction.
The laudanum they gave him was known colloquially as God's medicine, and within a month he couldn't do without it.
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(slang) The drug opium.
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