By masking symptoms through painkillers, you could be covering up something which could be important in the long run".
The teachers experienced everyday pain as an expression of a self-perpetuating cycle of struggle, of which adolescents escape through painkillers, apathy and school-absenteeism.
Much of "The Last Gladiators" follows Mr. Nilan from the let-down of his retirement, through alcoholism, painkiller abuse, heroin addiction and, finally, painful rehab.
Through my painkiller haze, his features run together and I see his head as a coconut with a little flap of its shell missing where his perma-smile is.
"Do you think the opportunities with city leaders and private sector talent are "vitamins" or "painkillers?" My response was (and is today) that we should think about the "vitamin" and "painkiller" metaphor through the lens of what civic innovation means to a city resident and what it means for a government employee.
Elizabeth Tikriti, 11, of Yakima, Wash., survived her illness in 1997 by gritting her teeth through treatments without painkillers and trying hard not to fall asleep.
Florida, which had rampant sales of prescription painkillers through so-called pill mills until a recent crackdown, has also seen a spread of clinics that dole out hormones for unnecessary reasons.
They repeated the experiment but gave some participants naltrexone, a drug that blocks the brain pathways through which opioid painkillers function.
Many of these prescription medications can be taken orally and at home, but in extremely severe cases, the doctor may give you painkillers through an IV.
The pill was Tramadol, a mild opioid painkiller of poor quality imported through the tunnels from Egypt.
