NaV1.8 Revolution: The Science Behind Opioid-Free Pain Medicine

More than 800,000 Americans died of opioid overdose between 1999 and 2024.For a quarter of a century, medicine had essentially one tool for serious pain — and that tool was also capable of killing the person using it. Every prescriber knew the risk. Every patient felt the trade-off. And for twenty-five years, the pharmacological alternative simply did not exist.In January 2025, it arrived.The NaV1...