The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Journavx for short-term pain that often ...

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The research, led by researchers at The University of Manchester and McGill University in Canada which analysed over 1 million patients newly initiated on opioids, found prescription of strong opioids ...

Hydrocodone and tramadol are both strong opioid prescription pain medicines. ConZip (tramadol) is commonly prescribed to ...

The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and ...

If you suffer from pain, you will likely end up with either ibuprofen, which is OK for mild pain, but absolutely does nothing for very strong pain or neuropathic pain; or opioids which are very ...

Yale researchers found that cannabis-derived compounds CBD, CBG and CBN reduce pain signaling by inhibiting the Nav1.8 ...

New high-dose naloxone formulations, often twice as strong as the standard 4-mg dose ... against replacing naloxone with nalmefene as an opioid antidote due to insufficient evidence.

The opioid analgesics, such as morphine, fentanyl and oxycodone, are strong pain-relievers most often used to relieve cancer pain. But a review of the evidence suggests they may also have a role ...

The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal opioids, is most closely tied to an equally dramatic decline in upward income ...

It comes as study of opioid prescribing in Wales showed strong prescriptions jumped by 300% between 2005 and 2015. The Welsh Government said a consultation on the matter is due. Robert Rees ...

Burnout in GPs has been linked to higher antibiotic and strong opioid prescribing, especially in the more deprived areas of the North of England, finds research funded by a National Institute for ...