The Federal Drug Administration last month approved Journavx, a new kind of non-addictive pain medication. Doctors say ...

After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...

Pain MD, which once ran as many as 20 clinics across three states, gave chronic-pain patients about 700,000 total injections ...

It’s the first FDA approval for a pain medication in 25 years. How does the drug work, and who is it for?

Experiencing pain may increase the odds that cancer survivors will use cigarettes and cannabis, according to a recent study published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American ...

When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...

U.S. Senators propose the Alternatives to PAIN Act to increase access to non-opioid pain treatments for seniors.

New research links emergency department opioid prescriptions to small increases in future opioid use and hospitalisations ...

According to published results, a novel opioid-free pathway may provide noninferior pain management compared with an opioid-containing pathway during the perioperative period in patients undergoing ...

According to published results, patients with a history of preoperative opioid use had inferior outcomes for pain and ...

See related article at KEY POINTS Opioids prescribed by clinicians can lead to opioid use disorder, opioid misuse, and other opioid-related harms. A single opioid prescription is not without risk and ...

Obtaining approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a key medication can be a huge catalyst for a ...