Sarah Richards never imagined she’d end up struggling with pain medication. After a car accident left her with chronic back pain, prescription opioids seemed like a lifeline. Three months later, she ...

The problems with pain medications are not new ones. The epidemic that many talk about in terms of opioid addiction is real. Many states in response to this problem have created new guidelines and ...

It promises powerful relief without the high or harm. So why is this breakthrough drug still flying under the radar? For years, opioids have dominated the world of pain management. They’re strong, ...

RACINE COUNTY — Drugs don’t have to be illegal to be dangerous. Racine County has one of the highest rates per-person of prescription drug-dispensing in the state and, with use, can come the risk of ...

A new non-opioid pain medication has been released - and doctors say it is non-addictive. The new drug, branded "Journavx," is the first non-opioid pain pill, and it just got FDA approval. "It's not ...

There is a deep irony in the pain of losing someone you love to the very medication prescribed to resolve their pain. My mother died from an opioid overdose in 2004. She was prescribed Oxycodone for ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Thanksgiving and Christmas came and went, and Jan hardly noticed. She slept a lot, trying to get off the prescription painkillers that consumed her days. She crashed her car for the ...

The long quest for powerful non-opioid drugs that treat pain without risk of addiction is nearing a milestone, in the form of a pill that could soon win approval from the Food and Drug Administration ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy ap ...

A new study finds that an increasing number of surgeries — and the painkillers that follow — could derail recovery for those who once misused opioids.