Papaverine vs Opium - What's the difference?
papaverine | opium |
A non-addictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.
(uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum , and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
(countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." -