A person who opposes the use, production, or sale of opium, especially as medicine or recreational drug.
From antiopium + -ist (one who practices or believes in). Emerged as a term for activists during the 19th-century antiopium movement.
Antiopiumists included doctors, religious leaders, and activists who discovered that opium addiction was destroying families—and their warnings in the 1800s sound remarkably modern when we think about drug epidemics today.
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