The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first of its kind prescription pain medication that is non-opioid.

US federal officials have approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. The US Food and Drug ...

People undergoing hemodialysis treatment for kidney failure often experience chronic pain related to their condition, but it ...

Almost 1,200 people in Kern County have died from fentanyl overdoses since 2018, including 171 in 2024 and an all-time high of 294 the year before, according to updated numbers from the Kern County ...

Opioids are a class of drugs that “derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant”, according to the website of the US-based Johns Hopkins Medicine. Some common opioids ...

A new non-opioid painkiller, JournaVX, has received approval from the FDA, marking the first new type of pain medication in ...

Emily Hernandez, a Missouri woman pardoned after her ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind non-opioid pain medication, providing a new option for adults experiencing moderate to severe acute pain. Journavx received FDA ...

The FDA just approved a new pain medication called Journavx, which promises to treat pain without the risk of developing an addiction. 21 News is joined by Dr. Jianguo Cheng with the Cleveland Clinic ...

A new drug approved Thursday by the FDA offers pain management but is not addictive. Unlike opioids, it treats pain signals ...

Because the drug doesn’t target the brain, it has less potential for addiction. Learn why this could help the opioid crisis.

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