Affect with drug, producing odd reaction laced with sulphur (9)

Guardian Cryptic #29012 | 16 Down | 2023-03-08
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

An envelope (‘laced with’) of S (chemical symbol, ‘sulphur’ aka sulfur) in NARCOTIE, an anagram (‘odd’) of ‘reaction’. Yes, it is a straight anagram, but this parsing makes sense of ‘laced with’.

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