painkiller

Originally developed by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1950s as a painkiller, clinical trials were abandoned amid concerns about their harmful effects.

By the time Luke arrived home from work with painkillers, Becky's pain was "quite bad" and the couple made the decision to go to hospital.

In the court filing, Porter said that Willis had been hospitalized twice since late 2022 on involuntary psychiatric holds and had a history of abusing prescription painkillers and other drugs.

At the time of her arrest, she was on repeat prescriptions of a strong painkiller for chronic back pain.

University of Queensland researchers have developed a new class of oral painkillers to suppress chronic abdominal pain that is based on the peptide hormone oxytocin that drives childbirth contractions.