National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists report that a first-in-human clinical trial of a new therapy based on the ...

RTX is a non-addictive pain therapy derived from a cactus-like plant.

With a mounting opioid epidemic at full force and relatively few alternative pain medications available to ... given the complexity of the Cannabis plant from which these products are obtained.

These analgesics can sometimes contain opioids, a class of drugs that derive from, or imitate, the natural pain-relieving substances found in the opium poppy plant. Opioids, which are also ...

These risks are greater when cannabis is prescribed by a doctor who doesn’t regularly manage the patient’s chronic pain or ...

Morphine and codeine were derived from the opium poppy plant. Prescriptions for what evolved into the two major classes of pain drugs—NSAIDs and opioids—were etched on clay tablets by ancient ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that is a ...