Washington, DC—Medical foods can play a beneficial role in the management of acute and chronic pain and should be the subject of more research, the Natural Products Association (NPA) said in comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Pain Management Task Force. In the comments, Daniel Fabricant,...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leading dietary supplement trade associations have come out with a caution that supplements cannot be considered a treatment for opioid addiction and abuse -- accompanied by a reminder that federal law does not allow dietary supplements to claim to treat or cure any disease. The American Herbal...
Washington, DC — Pain researcher and clinician Jacob Teitelbaum, MD., believes the solution to the country’s opioid epidemic is finding an alternative to addictive narcotics for managing pain. President Trump this week declared the country’s opioid crisis a “national emergency,” putting it on the same level of severity as natural disasters,...
