In case you missed the FDA’s Viewpoint commentary in JAMA, here it is:
Addressing Prescription Opioid Overdose: Data Support a Comprehensive Policy Approach
And it’s not about banning Zohydro:
“The risk in singling out a single drug like Zohydro ER in this complex, multidrug epidemic is that resulting policy is unlikely to have an effect on the underlying causes—the abuse of multiple opioids and other drugs and inappropriate prescribing.”
The first sentence of the concluding paragraph says it all, “The problem of opioid overdose demands well-informed policies.”
Not knee-jerk. Not political. Not bowing to threats. Well-informed policies.
Attention must be paid.
