✅ FDA plagued by lack of training and oversight during opioid crisis, report says

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✍  A newly released report says the Food and Drug Administration may have failed to set strict enough standards and follow-through for training doctors about the risks associated with opioids. Researchers say lack of oversight and training problems happened while the opioid crisis killed tens of thousands of people a year.  The rules were part of what's called a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or REMS, which required manufacturers of long-acting and addictive opioids like OxyContin to pay for training for doctors prescribing the drugs, and to monitor and report back on how well that training was working. But in the study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that didn't happen. The report said long-acting or "extended-release" opioids such as oxycodone and morphine "were associated with greater risk of addiction, unintentional overdose and death than their immediate-release counterparts."  So in 2012, the FDA set up rules requiring p ...
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