pain medication/reliever
noun
: a drug that decreases or removes pain
prescription pain medication/relievers
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Payton’s hope is for cannabis to be embraced not just as a pain reliever but as a wellness tool for both mind and body.
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Javier Hasse, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The man’s olive skin had a bluish tinge and whoever had called 911 thought fentanyl, a powerful pain reliever, was the cause.
—Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Eventually, Horton found out that her urine came back positive for codeine — an opioid pain reliever typically used in cough medicine.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
In 1959, an ambitious chemist named Dr. Paul Janssen first synthesized the pain reliever known as fentanyl while tinkering with the chemical structure of morphine.
—Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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Javier Hasse, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The man’s olive skin had a bluish tinge and whoever had called 911 thought fentanyl, a powerful pain reliever, was the cause.
—Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Eventually, Horton found out that her urine came back positive for codeine — an opioid pain reliever typically used in cough medicine.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
In 1959, an ambitious chemist named Dr. Paul Janssen first synthesized the pain reliever known as fentanyl while tinkering with the chemical structure of morphine.
—Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Pain medication/reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pain%20medication%2Freliever. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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