"Also, you can take symptomatic treatments - pain killers and hot tasty drinks, " he said.

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But they said they were aware of some problems following certain pain killers.

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She was found the following week having taken an overdose of pain killers in her VW Polo in a lay-by in Cornwall.

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In addition, these constituents are well recognized as being effective pain killers and may also be able to ameliorate symptoms of the cachexia (wasting syndrome) that accompanies advanced cancers.

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Treatment will probably include fluids and pain killers.

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"Though those tours were hugely successful, Jackson's tour doctors, one of whom Gongaware had hired, were administering pain killers to Jackson, and Gongaware thus was familiar with Jackson's substance abuse problems, " the Jackson brief said.

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Acupuncture appears to work by releasing endorphins, the body's natural pain-killers, into the system.

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Naved, 29, was unable to get up and needed oxygen and pain-killers before an ambulance took him to hospital.

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By contrast Britain's firemen, notoriously, have in past decades for the most part stubbornly refused training in such medical skills as administering pain-killers, or to carry equipment such as defibrillators (for treating heart attacks).

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