FDA Reconsiders Painkiller Training Requirements for Doctors

 

By Associated Press

The Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering whether doctors who prescribe painkillers like OxyContin should be required to take safety training courses, according to federal documents.

The review comes as regulators disclosed that the number of doctors who completed voluntary training programs is less than half that targeted by the agency. 

A panel of FDA advisers put in place nearly four years ago meets next week to review risk-management plans to reduce misuse and abuse of long-acting painkillers, powerful opioid drugs at the center of a national wave of abuse and death. 

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Source: NBC News