Bill Would Force Drug Makers to Make Painkillers Tamper Resistant
A bipartisan effort in Congress to make more opioid painkillers tamper resistant could also make generic forms of the drugs more costly, according to experts.…
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Are Painkiller Sales Falling?
Sales of OxyContin and other popular painkillers in the U.S. have declined in the past year, according to pharmaceutical sales data released by a clinical…
New OxyContin Formula Has Many Abusers Switching to Heroin
A change in the formula for the powerful painkiller OxyContin – designed to make the drug less likely to be abused -- may be encouraging…
FDA: Pain Education for Doctors to be Voluntary
The Food and Drug Administration has unveiled a long awaited plan to address prescription drug abuse – a plan that focuses on educating doctors about…
Should Children Take Opioid Painkillers?
Two new studies are drawing attention to a sensitive topic in the pain community: Should children be given powerful and potentially addictive opioid analgesics to…
FDA Tells Drug Makers to Stop Selling Unapproved Oxycodone
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has notified some pharmaceutical companies to stop manufacturing and distributing unapproved drugs that contain oxycodone, a widely prescribed and…
We don’t want physicians to be cops — We want them to be honest.
This column is written as a voice for the true victims of the prescription drug epidemic – patients and family members whose physicians were encouraged…
Abbott Laboratories Learns a Costly Lesson About Off-Label Marketing
Abbott Laboratories pleaded guilty earlier this month in federal court to marketing an anti-seizure drug called Depakote for unapproved purposes. The company will pay $1.5…