Few of the news stories analyzed in a recent study included information about non-pharmaceutical treatments for chronic pain, despite these being the preferred option for most chronic pain conditions

Study by the universities of Bonn and ShanghaiTech opens up perspectives for the development of painkillers

Opioid testing is challenging, as many illicit synthetic opioids are designed to elude detection

Researchers are seeking non-addictive chronic pain treatment options that produce few or no negative side effects

Toxicologists turn to chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify compounds

Forensic anthropologist to study how opioids impact the microscopic bone structures used to estimate age-at-death

Presently, only a limited number of drugs exist for effectively treating chronic pain, such as that caused by autoimmune diseases

Recognizing the role that opioid prescribing plays in the opioid crisis, a team of researchers developed a new clinical protocol called STOP Narcotics