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Analgesia and Anti-inflammatory 
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This web site provides information on the approval process and approved therapies for analgesia and anti-inflammatory related drugs. The Division of Anti-inflammatory, Analgesic, and Ophthalmologic Drug Products (DAAODP) reviews these drugs.

Analgesics are drugs that relieve pain.

Anti-inflammatories are drugs used to reduce inflammation - the redness, heat, swelling, and increased blood flow found in infections and in many chronic non-infective diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and gout.


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