pain reliever

Eventually, Horton found out that her urine came back positive for codeine — an opioid pain reliever typically used in cough medicine.

“During this election season, it appears that many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever. It too, promises a quick escape from life’s cares, an easy solution to the mounting social problems of U.S. communities and culture,” Vance wrote in the piece for the Atlantic.

In addition, Havnameltdown had corticosteroids and hyaluronic acid — a pain reliever and an anti-inflammatory — injected in both hocks and both stifles a month before his last race.

Ketamine is widely used in the NHS as an anaesthetic, sedative and pain reliever, and also commonly used on animals.

Xylazine is an FDA-approved sedative and pain reliever for use in animals, but it has severe adverse effects when used in humans.