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A potent synthetic opioid used for pain control during surgery and for chronic or breakthrough cancer pain. Works in the brain to block pain and is in the same class of drugs as morphine or hydrocodone but is about 50 to 100 times more...

Fentanyl, also spelled fentanil, is a powerful opioid used as a pain medication and together with other medications for anesthesia. It is also used as a recreational drug, sometimes mixed with heroin, methamphetamine, or cocaine, and its potentially deadly overdose effects can be neutralized by...

A medication used to help manage certain epileptic seizures and relieve pain for some conditions, such as shingles (postherpetic neuralgia)....