Dr. Sanjay Gupta said Tuesday that the approval of a new non-opioid pain medication is “a pretty big deal.” “This is a pretty ...

Stefan Kertesz, a physician and addiction expert, says overaggressive cutbacks can harm some chronic pain patients.

This new nonaddictive alternative is the first of its kind that interrupts the pain signal before it reaches the brain.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NBC ...

And opioids are, of course ... NOGUCHI: Yeah, so in clinical trials, the side effects were pretty mild. They included things like itchiness, rash, muscle spasms. I think the far more significant ...