The FDA has approved Journavx, a pain medication, offering a safer alternative to opioids. Learn about its benefits and side ...

Columbia will also give out 400 fentanyl testing strips, which can detect the dangerous synthetic opioid that is more and more frequently being laced with non-synthetic drugs. But those life ...

A new type of non-opioid painkiller, aimed at treating short-term pain in adults, has been approved by the US Food and Drug ...

Its effects can leave users prone to non-healing skin lesions and more liable to overdose ... A generic definition of nitazenes, a type of synthetic opioid, has also been introduced into law, which ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ non-opioid pain medication is up for FDA approval this week. Other drugmakers have found safer ...

The FDA granted approval for Journavx after clinical trials demonstrated its effectiveness in post-surgical pain relief ...

By providing separate Medicare reimbursement for non-opioid therapies, this bill expanded patient and provider access to FDA-approved non-opioids in all outpatient surgical settings. Then ...

It's the first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in over 20 years, designed to eliminate risks of addiction and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) is issuing an alert after a synthetic opioid, more potent than fentanyl, was found in the local unregulated drug supply. Health ...

A homeless ex-con found dead in the bin area of a Havering petrol station was the latest victim of a novel synthetic opioid linked to a rising number ... He was described during his non-invasive ...

In preparing the alert, Fintrac analyzed a sample of about 5,000 suspicious transaction reports related to fentanyl and synthetic opioids filed between 2020 and 2023. Most of the reports involved the ...