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• n  narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient

• In the public mind, opioids such as morphine and laudanum, although they remained the most effective pain relievers, became associated with their illegal cousins--heroin and opium .
• For most of the 19th century's mind blowers, opium meant laudanum, an alcoholic solution of the drug used as a common painkiller.
• He put his wife to sleep with a whopping dose of laudanum.

• tincture of opium

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• Ioan Gruffudd in Times Online
  Yes, he was addicted to laudanum,Gruffudd says. "But he was such a disciplinarian that he was able to take just the right amount of dosage to suppress the pain of colitis and to function at the same time."