The Collaborative International Dictionary
morphinism \mor"phin*ism\, n. (Med.) A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.
Wiktionary
n. 1 morphine addiction. 2 Disease caused by excessive usage of morphine.
Usage examples of "morphinism".
There were entire sections devoted to insanity and cretinism, social and criminal pathology, suicide, pauperism and philanthropy, prison reform, prostitution and morphinism, capital punishment, abnormal psychology, legal codes, the argot of the underworld and code writing, toxicology, and police methods.
Should he continue, he would become a morphomaniac in a given time, and the apathy into which he fell prevented him from resisting the desire to absorb new doses of poison, a desire as imperious, as irresistible in morphinism as that of alcohol for the alcoholic, and more terrible in its effects--the perversion of the intellectual faculties, loss of will, of memory, of judgment, paralysis, or the mania that leads to suicide.