FDA Panel Wants Tougher Restrictions on Opioids

MedPageToday -- ADELPHI, Md. -- An FDA advisory committee voted 25-10 to reject the agency’s proposed plan to prevent inappropriate prescribing, misuse, and abuse of extended-release opioid painkillers, saying the plan lacks the teeth to stem the “public health crisis” of opioid addiction, overdose, and death.

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