Nearly 108,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, with approximately 82,000, or 76 percent, of those deaths stemming from opioid usage, according to the Center for Disease Control.

Acute pain is something more than 80 million Americans fill prescriptions to treat each year, according to Vertex. As opposed to chronic pain, which can last well after an injury or illness has ...

“With the approval of JOURNAVX, a non-opioid, pain signal inhibitor and the first new class of pain medicine approved in more than 20 years, we have the opportunity to change the paradigm of ...

A new pain relief drug, suzetrigine, is a prescription pill that’s taken every 12 hours after a larger starter dose. It will be sold under the brand name Journavx.

F.D.A. Approves Drug to Treat Pain Without Opioid Effects The drug, Journavx by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, blocks pain signals to the brain, making it nonaddictive. Listen to this article · 5:52 min ...