Senator Charles Schumer is urging Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “to overturn the government’s approval of a new powerful prescription opioid, Zohydro ER” (hydrocodone), “until it has been made abuse-proof.” According to reports, Schumer “believed there was a ‘decent chance’ that” Sebelius would revoke the FDA approval.
Whatever your position on the issue of opiods, the proper venue for this decision is not the office of the Secretary of HHS but rather the office of the FDA Commissioner.
And Senator Schumer should know better.
Chuck, can you say, "Plan B?
