On the one hand, they're afraid of the risks of addiction that come with powerful painkillers.

Finally, he saw a sports doctor who hooked him up with low doses of a powerful painkiller.

On the one hand, people are afraid of the risks of drug abuse and addiction that come with powerful painkillers.

Here's one piece of good news: most people with back pain don't need these powerful painkillers to begin with.

Doctors there gave him a powerful painkiller that may have masked important symptoms, she said.

But many people need more powerful opioid painkillers, such as:

And many avoid morphine, a powerful painkiller, for fear it will cause respiratory failure and death.

All they had was some powerful painkillers and sterilizers, and precious little of those.

At least one was a painkiller, powerful enough to shroud his whole body in cotton.

For severe nerve pain, powerful opioid painkillers can help.