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Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ drug, Journavx, blocks a sodium channel outside of the brain. Experts hope that this non-addictive pain drug may be the first of many.

A promising relationship between acetylcholine signaling and pain relief in mice could point the way to a non-opioid therapeutic.

No pharmaceutical treatments exist for addictions to drugs like cocaine or cannabis. Now, scientists are engineering gene therapies, immunotherapies, and more.

Researchers discovered that microbial short chain fatty acids influence drug seeking behavior in rats, revealing potential new therapeutic targets for cocaine use disorder.

After decades of research, chemists created antibodies that could help patients fight addiction.

Researchers used an innovative computational approach to identify a generic drug that could be repurposed to treat cocaine toxicity.