{"id":228275,"date":"2026-01-03T01:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/prescriptions-rising-for-a-new-non-opioid-analgesic-but-clinicians-are-still-learning-where-it-fits"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:21:05","slug":"prescriptions-rising-for-a-new-non-opioid-analgesic-but-clinicians-are-still-learning-where-it-fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/prescriptions-rising-for-a-new-non-opioid-analgesic-but-clinicians-are-still-learning-where-it-fits","title":{"rendered":"Prescriptions Rising for a New Non-Opioid Analgesic, but Clinicians Are Still Learning Where It Fits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prescriptions-rising-for-a-new-non-opioid-analgesic-but-clinicians-are-still-learning-where-it-fits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prescriptions for the new non-opioid pain medication suzetrigine more than doubled between April and August 2025, according to analysis from Epic Research. The increase indicates a growing interest in opioid alternatives for acute pain, even as clinicians grapple with how and where the drug best fits in practice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Despite a surge in prescriptions for the non-opioid pain drug suzetrigine, clinicians are still sorting out who benefits the most and when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prescriptions for the new non-opioid pain medication suzetrigine more than doubled between April and August 2025, according to analysis from Epic Research. The increase indicates a growing interest in opioid alternatives for acute pain, even as clinicians grapple with how and where the drug best fits in practice. Despite a surge in prescriptions for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}