Experimental Drug Could Offer Pain Relief without the Side Effects of Opioids

An experimental painkiller could be the key to solving the opioid epidemic

The drug could offer powerful pain relief without the dangerous side effects of opioids

Experimental painkiller could outsmart opioids -- without the high

A study shows a non-opioid pain reliever blocks pain at its source -- calming specific nerve signals that send pain messages to the brain. In mice, the compound SBI-810 eased pain from surgery, bone fractures, and nerve injury without causing sedation or constipation.

Experimental drug could offer pain relief without the side effects of opioids

An experimental drug developed at Duke University School of Medicine could offer powerful pain relief without the dangerous side effects of opioids.

Experimental painkiller could outsmart opioids—without the high

An experimental drug developed at Duke University School of Medicine could offer powerful pain relief without the dangerous side effects of opioids.

A new painkiller, less likely to cause addiction than opiates, was approved in January in the United States, while a Quebec researcher made a similar discovery.

Doctors have developed an experimental drug that relieves pain better than opioids – but, unlike these painkillers, doesn't make it high and addictive. Because the medicine called SBI-810 acts specifically on only one receptor and a signalling pathway, it apparently does not cause opioid-typical side effects and also surpasses other painkillers in its pain-absorbing effect. SBI-810 could [...] The post Novel painkiller could replace opioids appe…