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FDA Panel Backs Tighter Controls on Vicodin

By Pat Anson, Editor An advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration has recommended tighter controls on Vicodin and other hydrocodone products, the most widely used and abused narcotic painkiller in the U.S. The FDA [...]

Nektar Begins Testing of New Opioid Painkiller

Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) has announced positive results from an early study on the effectiveness of a new short-acting opioid drug candidate. The company said the drug – called NKTR-192 – achieved its target pharmacokinetic profile [...]

PROP’s Petition: Why Opioid Labeling Changes Are Needed

By Pete Jackson, Guest Columnist Recently, several columns have appeared in American News Report expressing negative views toward a petition submitted to the FDA by doctors, researchers and public health officials, many of them associated with [...]

Drug Monitoring Database Significantly Reduced Inappropriate Prescriptions

A prescription drug monitoring program in Canada dramatically reduced the number of inappropriate prescriptions for opioid painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs, according to a new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study found that PharmaNet, [...]

Living with Pain: Patients Fight Back in Florida

Pain patients in Florida are taking their well-being into their own hands by fighting back against the state and federal governments, which are obstructing and, in some cases, denying opioid treatment for chronic pain. In the [...]

Depression and Painkiller Use Increases Risk of Addiction after Surgery

The risk of addiction to opioid painkillers after surgery significantly increases if a patient is depressed or has used pain medications prior to surgery, according to a pilot study at Stanford University. Researchers found that psychological [...]

Caught in the Crossfire: PROMPT vs. PROP

When a group of doctors, public health officials and members of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) submitted a petition to the FDA to restrict the approved uses of opioid medications, the shockwave that rocked the [...]

Living with Pain: The Fed Crackdown on Medical Marijuana

I have been smoking medical marijuana for the past four months. Like hundreds of thousands of others, I turned to medical marijuana for relief from chronic pain. For me the decision was easy, as I had [...]

Researcher Says Marijuana is Safer Alternative to Painkillers

Marijuana is an effective treatment for chronic pain and is a safer alternative than opioid analgesics, according to a Canadian researcher at the Centre for Addictions Research at the University of Victoria. Phillippe Lucas,MA, reviewed numerous [...]

Living with Pain: PROP’s Misleading Petition

Last week the Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, along with a group of doctors and public health officials, sent a petition to the Food and Drug Administration requesting changes in labeling for opioid analgesics. For over [...]

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