For the first time in more than 25 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on a new type of pain reliever ...

Experts with the Cleveland Clinic say the drug has a lot of potential, especially since it is considered nonaddictive.

Doctors from the Cleveland Clinic talk about how this new non-opioid pain medication could help reduce the issue of opioid ...

currently suggest alternatives to weak opioids unless other types of pain relief is contraindicated. Strong opioids are no longer recommended for osteoarthritis or chronic low back pain. Joint first ...

After a certain threshold, cumulative opioid use was associated with higher dementia risk, a study of adults over age 60 in Denmark showed. In a nested case-control study, opioid use above 90 ...

Opioids are routinely prescribed for treatment of chronic pain (CP). In the past two decades there has been a massive increase in the number of opioid prescriptions, prescribed daily opioid doses ...

Washington — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin.