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The Thiambutenes are a family of opioid analgesic drugs developed at the British research laboratory of Burroughs-Wellcome in the late 1940s.The parent compound thiambutene has no analgesic effects but several compounds from this group are analgesics with around the same potency as morphine.Notable compounds include dimethylthiambutene diethylthiambutene ethylmethylthiambutene pyrrolidinylthiambutene and piperidylthiambutene.