Originally Posted by
We Will Never Forget
Originally Posted by
pmocek
Of those substances, only heroin is a
narcotic.
In the literal sense. Just as Kool Aid has become a generic term for a "powder based artificially flavored beverage", narcotics has taken over for "illicit controlled substance".
In the literal sense, the legal sense, and the medical sense. Mostly only in the television drama sense and the misinformed drug warrior sense are those other substances narcotics.