People who take gabapentinoids, a medication prescribed increasingly frequently worldwide, particularly for chronic pain, ...

Opioids show variable efficacy for acute pain management across clinical settings and timepoints, with some increasing risk for adverse events.

We live in a nation of needless pain, where tens of millions suffer daily despite the existence of effective treatments. Yet policy decisions and misplaced fears have steered patients away from ...

Oxycontin (oxycodone hydrochloride) prescription medications are effective at relieving pain but carry a risk of addiction. While there's a need for novel non-opioid drugs for pain, they face clinical ...

Millions of people every year get one or more wisdom teeth, also called third molars, extracted by a dentist or oral surgeon, and opioids were once considered to be the standard of care to treat pain ...

Drug overdose deaths are plummeting in the U.S. in ways never seen before. Experts worry new, toxic "synthetic" street drugs ...

Patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty taking perioperative antidepressant medications may be more likely to be ...

The frequency of analgesic drug errors in hospitals is nearly three per 1,000 prescriptions, according to a news release by American Pain Society. Researchers at Albany (New York) Medical Center ...

Inside the Nice pharmacy on Allegheny Avenue in Kensington, employees busily fill prescriptions for waiting customers. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...