painkiller

Example Sentences

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When she wakes up, she will regain consciousness more quickly and clearly because she required lower doses of anaesthetic drugs such as propofol and opioid painkillers than patients who heard no music.

From BBC

Mr Scott had to give up work as a chef due to a spinal injury and said he takes "a lot of painkillers every day for chronic pain".

From BBC

Beginning in the mid-1990s, abuse of prescription opioid painkillers was to blame for deaths before a gradual turn to heroin, which in 2015 caused more deaths than prescription painkillers or other drugs.

From Seattle Times

A volunteer handed him a small bag of painkillers.

From Los Angeles Times

The family has links to Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin painkiller that has been hit with lawsuits in the US.

From BBC