The narcotic crisis in the United States has claimed nearly 850,000 lives since 1999 with a staggering annual mortality rate of approximately 70,000 lives. An overwhelming majority of overdose-related ...

Research involving over 2.1 million veterans indicates that LTOT is significantly linked to infection-related dental outcomes ...

Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few ...

Credit: Thinkstock. A warning about opioid-induced hyperalgesia has been added to the prescribing information. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the prescribing information for all ...

Tapentadol immediate release tablets are used to manage acute pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic.

Inappropriate prescribing trends and wasteful medication decisions can also have a significant detrimental economic impact. Research shows that the most costly prescribing decisions disproportionately ...

Researchers have discovered a new class of pipeline drugs to relieve pain and reduce fever without the danger of addiction or damage to the liver or kidneys. Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans ...

Codeine sulfate 15mg, 30mg, 60mg; tabs. Codeine sulfate is an opioid agonist relatively selective for the mu-opioid receptor, but with a much weaker affinity than morphine. The analgesic properties of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concentric Analgesics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, non-opioid pain therapeutics, today announced publication of a multicenter, ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1148-1152. Health care organizations around the nation have been working to reduce the use of meperidine as a first-line agent for pain management. Despite the ...

Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence and colleagues have discovered a new class of pipeline drugs to relieve pain and reduce fever without the danger of addiction or ...