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Analgesic Drugs

For severe pain the most widely used drug is still morphine. Other useful drugs have been found, however, in the course of the search for substances with morphine's good qualities but not its bad ones

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 215 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “Analgesic Drugs” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 215 No. 5 (), p. 131
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1166-131