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Answer for the clue "YSL perfume named for a drug ", 5 letters:
opium

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" Opium " is a song by the band Moonspell . It is from the album Irreligious and was released as a single. The end of the song has a quote from one of Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms , Álvaro de Campos , from his poem Opiário.

Usage examples of opium.

He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.

Britain was not keen to legislate against addictive drugs was that it was making vast amounts of money by flogging opium to the Chinese.

They figured the Kurds, Afghanis, and Tuaregs already there would like a bit of smoke, and they could always refine opium into heroin if the Irish and Basques preferred needles to pipes.

Furthermore, deep stirrings within my own person are by no means absent: a consequence of my abstention, opium in all its forms being an antaphrodisiac, counteracting venereal desire.

Macao was astir with the progress of the pits being prepared at Chuenpi and the enormous stores of confiscated opium being piled behind bamboo fences that sealed off the area.

In the years following the First Opium War disasters multiplied, taxes were increased upon the peasantry, corruption in the governing mandarinate became systematic, respect for authority declined, power decentralized, banditry flourished, sovereignty rotted at the center.

He also ran casinos, dog tracks, was involved in illicit trades on the stock market, owned diamond mines, smuggled opium and probably had a finger in every dodgy pie imaginable .

Behrend observed an opium exanthem, which was attended by intolerable itching, after the exhibition of a quarter of a grain.

It was Rushad himself who would bring the opium tincture to the festal hall, late in the proceedings, and see it dispersed among the myriad pitchers of beer and kumis.

Next I bought a joint, a popper, a phial of cocaine and a plug of opium from a fat spade in Times Square and snuffled it all up in a gogo bar toilet.

I proved him the truth of what I had said by telling him that opium produced the same results as wine, but more powerfully, and consequently Mahomet ought to have forbidden the use of it.

He observed that he had never taken either wine or opium in the course of his life.

The glare of their black eyes was like those of Eastern eaters of hasheesh or opium, and they bounded to and fro as if their muscles were springs of steel.

On Friday night Garcia was recovering from a pipe or more of opium, and possibly a jorum of whisky.

Chinese wine would be consumed, pots of kaoliang cooked with rice prepared, and those who had opium would divide with those who had none.