Newsletter - September 20, 2018
FDA Releases New Educational Material for Opioid Prescribers
This week FDA released an educational guidance for prescribers of opioid drugs intended to limit opioid prescription through increased diligence by the physicians. The FDA guidance is very similar to that from CDC released last year for the same purpose. Most of the patients get opioid drugs via prescriptions from their physicians...Read More
Is FDA Push for Restrictions on e-Cigarettes Based on Flawed Science and Hype?
FDA has declared sort-of an all-out war on e-cigarettes citing increased use by adolescents and young adults with hundreds of Warning Letters and threats of punitive actions. There is no argument that children should not be smoking but by expanding the definition of smoking to include inhaling essentially water vapor mixed with pure nicotine...Read More
FDA Releases New Educational Material for Opioid Prescribers
This week FDA released an educational guidance for prescribers of opioid drugs intended to limit opioid prescription through increased diligence by the physicians. The FDA guidance is very similar to that from CDC released last year for the same purpose. Most of the patients get opioid drugs via prescriptions from their physicians...Read More
Is FDA Push for Restrictions on e-Cigarettes Based on Flawed Science and Hype?
FDA has declared sort-of an all-out war on e-cigarettes citing increased use by adolescents and young adults with hundreds of Warning Letters and threats of punitive actions. There is no argument that children should not be smoking but by expanding the definition of smoking to include inhaling essentially water vapor mixed with pure nicotine...Read More
