1873 Jan. 20 Its [sc. opium's] general use in ‘soothing syrups, cough balsams and cordials’, by ‘opium eaters’, and ‘morphine takers’, are [sic] slaying the innocents and others,..by millions every year.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. VIII. 317 Sulphate of spartein is used by some morphine takers.
1997 (Nexis) 3 Oct. t12 The American moviegoers who in 1911 and 1914 flocked to two silent films by Holger Madsen, The Morphine Takers and Opium Dreams.