Nonnarcotic pain medications aren’t addictive and can be used to manage mild to moderate pain. Being in pain can be an exhausting and upsetting experience. Sometimes the reasons you’re in pain aren’t ...

Over-the-counter (OTC) pain medication includes acetaminophen for treating pain and fever and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for treating inflammatory conditions. These OTC pain relief ...

Some over-the-counter (OTC) topical creams, like lidocaine or capsaicin, may be helpful for nerve pain. Nerve pain is distinct from typical tissue pain. When you have tissue pain, like falling down or ...

Editor’s Note (1/31/25): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the novel nonopioid medication suzetrigine for acute pain. That pain ranges from moderate to severe. The drug was tested in ...

This marks the first approval of a new class of pain relief drugs in more than 20 years, according to a Jan. 30 news release from the agency. Suzetrigine, developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, works by ...

Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to provide pain relief, offering greater hope that new classes of these drugs may ...