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Opioid analgesics, in general, are the strongest pain-relieving medications. The benchmark drug in this class is morphine -- with other opioids falling above or below it in terms of pain-relieving potential.
Near the bottom of the list is codeine, usually prescribed in combination with acetaminophen to relieve, for example, pain resulting from dental work. Codeine is only about 1/10th as powerful as morphine. Opioids more powerful than morphine include hydromorphone (Dilaudid) and oxymorphone (Opana). But the strongest opioid in community use is fentanyl which, in its intravenous form, is 70 to 100 times more potent than morphine.