Total Drug Market for Pain Will Reach More Than $47 Billion in 2023,
According to a New Report from Decision Resources
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that although strong opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) will continue to dominate the pain market over the next 15 years, novel drug classes will claim over one-fifth of total market share by 2023.
The new special Pharmacor report entitled Novel Approaches to Pain finds that the overall pain market will reach more than $47 billion in 2023 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and Japan. From 2008 to 2013, reformulations and emerging therapies in existing drug classes will be the primary drivers of market growth while from 2013 to 2023, growth will result predominantly from the launch of innovative agents representing entirely new drug classes. Therapies representing novel drug classes will expand the pain market by adding to the eight major analgesic drug classes, creating as many as 18 drug classes by 2023, according to the report.
The most successful reformulations and emerging therapies in existing drug classes will be abuse- and dependence-resistant strong opioid formulations, including King Pharmaceuticals/Pain Therapeutics' Remoxy; as well as safer and more tolerable NSAID formulations such as NicOx's naproxcinod and AstraZeneca/POZEN's naproxen/esomeprazole combination; Johnson & Johnson's new dual-acting opioid tapentadol; and longer lasting antimigraine formulations such as GlaxoSmithKline's Treximet.
Of the novel drug classes expected to launch for pain through 2023, the
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