For the first time in two decades, the FDA has approved a new class of non-opioid pain medication, offering an alternative to addictive opioids for patients seeking pain relief. The drug ...

For the first time in two decades, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new class of medication that provides an alternative to addictive opioids for patients looking to manage ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and ...

Journavx (suzetrigine), a non-opioid pill for moderate-to-severe acute pain, has just received FDA approval. It’s the first drug in a new family of medicines that block pain signals before they ...

It is expensive, with a list price of $15.50 per pill. But unlike opioid pain medicines, it cannot become addictive. That is because the drug, suzetrigine, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and to be ...

The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay Kentucky $110 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year alleging it pumped millions of doses of opioids into the state over the course of more than a decade.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and ...

COVINGTON, Ky. — Kroger will pay Kentucky $110 million in settlement funds that will ultimately go to combat the opioid crisis Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says the business helped ...

The oral drug, branded Journavx, works by blocking pain signals at their source, unlike opioids — which trigger the brain's reward centers as they travel through the blood and then attach to ...

The long quest for powerful non-opioid drugs that treat pain without risk of addiction is nearing a milestone, in the form of a pill that could soon win approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

Kentucky received more than it would have in broader settlement Kroger denies wrongdoing, calls claims of lacking safeguards false Opioid epidemic led to 727,000 U.S. deaths from 1999 to 2022 Jan ...