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petesergeant · 20 days ago
Marginally more info, along with the title of the paper, but the doi is broken: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-discovery-analgesic-p...

There's also the alternative Journavx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzetrigine

pogue · 20 days ago
I can't find the study about this compound, Discovery and development of an oral analgesic targeting the α2B adrenoceptor, anywhere. I'd like to read more about the clinical pharmacology in detail.
petesergeant · 17 days ago
If you didn't already find it, this has now shown up: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500006122
burnt-resistor · 20 days ago
A new class of selective α2B-adrenoceptor antagonist.
cluckindan · 20 days ago
Sounds like it comes with an increased risk of stroke and cardiological issues, psychomotor agitation, anxiety, aggression, possibly even psychosis. Humans have noradrenaline regulation for a reason.
tsol · 19 days ago
We'll have to see. There are a lot of natural and experimental painkillers that aren't used either because of side effects or more often because they just don't work consistently. It just so happens that so far the opioids are the only ones that can handle extreme pain. It's a hard problem to solve
elric · 20 days ago
Does the article not consider those to be serious side effects then? What is considered serious?
cluckindan · 20 days ago
In this case, I believe ”serious side effects” is referring to opioid addiction and physical dependency.
raylad · 20 days ago
It works by causing a release of noadrenalin.

Prediction: It will end up being used by the military and/or fighters to provide instantaneous muscle strength coupled with pain relief from overexertion.

harvie · 20 days ago
Isn't that just gonna keep the patients in constant fight-or-flight mode? Perhaps developing PTSD or something over time...
buran77 · 20 days ago
With soldiers it makes sense to use it explicitly to enforce the "fight" mode as needed. This can range from "occasionally in emergencies" to "all the time".

But militaries have famously not cared about the long term health and well being of their forces past their active use. So any consequence of "long term fight mode" past victory day are just the cost of doing business.

mvdtnz · 20 days ago
It's only constant if you constantly administer it
miningape · 20 days ago
Sounds like a secondary concern to me /s
FirmwareBurner · 20 days ago
Star Craft marine stim packs let's gooooo
binary132 · 20 days ago
My exact first thought
tsoukase · 20 days ago
It is hard to beat morphine and its derivatives (eg fentanyl). In strict medical settings they are excellent analgetics and anxiolytics, safe with minor side effects. The only problem is when things go wary after the initial use (dependence etc).
M95D · 20 days ago
What about tolerance? Will it need increasing doses to be effective?
erickhill · 20 days ago
Why is this written in such a way to only target cancer patients?
bitwize · 20 days ago
The class of patients most likely to require opioids over long periods of time?
delusional · 20 days ago
And a class disproportionately insensitive to long term negative side effects.
lmm · 20 days ago
Probably that's where the funding is available.
kelseyfrog · 20 days ago
How is it different from Imiloxan?