FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg Statement on Prescription Opioid Abuse

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Title: FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg Statement on Prescription Opioid Abuse

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FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg Statement on Prescription Opioid Abuse

04/03/2014 10:45 AM EDT

For more than a decade, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been working to address the important public health problems associated with the misuse, abuse, addiction and overdose of opioid analgesics, while at the same time working to ensure continued access to effective and appropriate medications for millions of Americans currently suffering from pain. I firmly believe that these goals are compatible, and that actions to address one should not be at the expense of the other.

 

 

 

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