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opium
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The Joy Luck Club
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And each time she returned, she remained in her bedroom, sitting all day like a Buddha, smoking her opium, talking softly to herself.†
Chpt 17 *

opium = a powerful narcotic
She ate a piece of raw opium, enough to make her sick, and then sent her maid to tell Wu Tsing she was dying.†
Chpt 17
She did so many pretend-suicides, we servants began to suspect she no longer bothered to eat the opium.†
Chpt 17
I saw Second Wife koutou to First Wife, bowing with deep respect while offering her more opium.†
Chpt 17
"She has taken too much opium," cried Yan Chang.†
Chpt 17
And what she had done was eat ywansyau filled with a kind of bitter poison, not candied seeds or the dull happiness of opium as Yan Chang and the others had thought.†
Chpt 17

Definitions:

(1) (opium)
a powerful drug made from a type of poppy; relieves pain and aids sleep, but highly addictive and dangerous when abused recreationally
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)