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But as I stood there before the screen, I felt that the real villain in this piece was CNN, placing its stupid rescue story in the foreground, delivered by the flirty anchor at the desk, and then immediately followed by a commercial for a pain-killer of some kind, called Activa, or was it Actaval?
Reverend Billy: Life in the Water Reverend Billy 2011
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Colts owner Jim Irsay battled a pain-killer addiction a few years ago... so is it fair of us to wonder if his new substance of choice is Twitter?
Read this: Richard Wolffe, Jim Irsay, Kennedys miniseries, Jane Krakowski, etc. The Reliable Source 2011
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Morphine, the most effective pain-killer (and the safest) ever known, costs less than 50 cents a dose if you take it as a pill.
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He noted his firm had put up $13 million for the litigation against Merck for wrongful death suits involving the pain-killer Vioxx.
Lawyers Play Speed-Date in Toyota Suit Tussle Dionne Searcey 2010
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"I am kind of looking forward to those [pain-killer] injections, actually."
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Half the participants were given a brochure describing the pill as a newly-approved pain-killer which cost $2.50 per dose and half were given a brochure describing it as marked down to 10 cents, without saying why.
Costly placebos works better than cheap ones « Isegoria 2008
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Co. for wrongful death suits for pain-killer Vioxx.
Lawyers Vie at Toyota Hearing Dionne Searcey 2010
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He noted his firm had put up $13 million for the litigation against Merck for wrongful death suits involving the pain-killer Vioxx.
Lawyers Play Speed-Date in Toyota Suit Tussle Dionne Searcey 2010
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Back at the hospital his pain-killer orders were confused, with the result that Hank had to endure more pain during his last days than was necessary, and had to mount one last battle with the health care industry just to get the pain medicine he needed.
Bob Ostertag: The City of Saint Francis Loses Its Own Saint Henry 2008
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Limbaugh praised 17-year-old Bristol for keeping her baby and then, despite boasting 3 divorces and a pain-killer addiction, drew a moral contrast with Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama saying, "Obama supports the killing of babies."
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