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narcotic

chemical substance with psychoactive properties
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narcotic
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Summary

narcotic is a drug class[1]. narcotic ranks in the top 10% of drug class entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,579 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: depressant[3], analgesic[4]
  • Commons category: Narcotics[5]
  • Said to be the same as: Estupefacientes[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Narcotics[7]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[8], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], The New Student's Reference Work[13]
  • Partially coincident with: psychoactive drug[14], illegal drug[15]
  • Different from: illegal drug[16]
  • History of topic: history of narcotics[17]

Why It Matters

narcotic has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] narcotic is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . meshb.nlm.nih.gov. meshb.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → narcotics
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: narcotics, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955664|narcotics (#289955664)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Narcotics
    Partially coincident with → psychoactive drug, illegal drug
    Said to be the same as → Estupefacientes
    History of topic → history of narcotics
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|12 */ Yso id: 5465, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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