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University of Queensland researchers have developed a new class of oral painkillers to suppress chronic abdominal pain that is based on the peptide hormone oxytocin that drives childbirth contractions.

Elise says the pain will only get worse as her body becomes more tolerant of painkillers – making them less effective.

Prince overdosed on a powerful painkiller that federal health authorities say is a public health threat.

Mr Raithelhuber said there was a "lesson to learn... from North America", where people became addicted to prescription painkillers before the use of fake medicines containing fentanyl became widespread.

First developed as painkillers by the Swiss company Ciba Pharmaceuticals in the 50s, nitazenes are synthetic opioids roughly as potent as fentanyl but sometimes demanding more naloxone to revive from an overdose.