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. —

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. —

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