Emerging Drugs and Formulations for Pain Treatment
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Pharmacy and Formulation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2025 | Viewed by 863
Special Issue Editors
Interests: obesity; pain; experimental pain treatment; physiopathology of pain; experimental therapeutics
Interests: pain; neuropathy; neuropharmacology; pain treatment; opioid drugs; cannabinoid-based medicine
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global burden of pain has increased in recent times, and although measuring pain is complicated, approximately 20% of the population suffers from pain of a chronic nature. In this regard, it is important to recognize that chronic pain damages the quality of life of patients, and in the same way, it results in a higher cost to private and public health systems. Although analgesic marketed drugs produce a significant release from pain, a considerable number of patients do not experience pain relief. Also, the side effects of these conventional drugs lead to the abandonment of pharmacological management of pain. Relief from pain is a human right; however, the existence of significant barriers such as the lack of individualized therapies, the increased opioid crisis, and the undertreated patients with difficult pain syndromes can make this process difficult. In response to overcoming the major barriers of pharmacological pain treatment, we are pleased to invite all researchers of preclinical and clinical areas to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Emerging Drugs and Formulations for Pain Treatment”. Original and review articles on preclinical and clinical findings focused on new drug design, reformulations, combined therapies, drug targeting, nanomedicine, delivery and controlled-release systems for drugs, advanced pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics therapies, and improved pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics processes of analgesic drugs, which enhance the understanding of treatment and release of pain, are welcome. Research areas include (but are not limited to) chronic, neuropathic, nociplastic, oncologic, and rare syndromes of pain conditions and others.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Hector Isaac Rocha-González
Dr. Geovanna Nallely Quiñonez-Bastidas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- analgesia
- experimental pain treatment
- preclinical models
- pharmacotherapeutic management of pain
- new drugs in clinical trials
- drug development
- psychotropic drugs
- natural compounds
- neuropathic Pain
- chronic pain
- synthetic drugs
- new formulations
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