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Opiate

Although, the term opiate is often incorrectly used to refer to all opium-like drugs, it is more properly limited to the natural opium alkaloids and the semi-synthetics drugs derived from them.

Natural opium also contains small amounts of papaverines, which technically classifies them as opiates; however they have essentially no effects on the central nervous system, so they are not opioids.

See opioid for a fuller discussion.

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Opiate is an EP by Tool, an American rock band formed in 1989. See Opiate (album)

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Opiate is also the name of a rock-metal band based in the United Kingdom and signed to Visible Noise records, home of the Lostprophets band. See Opiate (band).

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