Breaking The Pain Market’s Addiction To Opioids

The recent success of Vertex in acute pain merely highlights the agonizingly slow process elsewhere, particularly in chronic pain indications.  

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The recent partial success of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated’s non-opioid product VX-548 in a pair of acute pain studies positions the product as potentially the first new non-opioid analgesic to reach the market for years. But many more companies are also working on novel mechanisms for pain and the sheer variety of approaches in the clinic reflects the difficulty of breaking through in this intractable area.

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