The fight against the opioid epidemic in the United States took a major step forward. For the first time ever, the Food and Drug Administration requested that an opioid should be removed from the marketplace.
The FDA formally asked Endo, a pharmaceutical company, to stop selling Opana ER, an extended-release form of the opioid drug oxymorphone. The FDA said many users were crushing up and injecting the painkiller to abuse it, according to NBC News.
“Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested that Endo Pharmaceuticals remove its opioid pain medication, reformulated Opana ER (oxymorphone hydrochloride), from the market,” the FDA said in a statement issued on Thursday (June 8). “After careful consideration, the agency is seeking removal based on its concern that the benefits of the drug may no longer outweigh its risks. This is the first time the agency has taken steps to remove a currently marketed opioid pain medication from sale due to the public health consequences of abuse.”
Endo acknowledged its drug could be used for the wrong reasons but pushed back at the notion that Opana ER should be completely removed from the market.
“While the benefits of opioids in treating and managing pain are widely recognized, the misuse and abuse of these products have increased greatly in the U.S,” Endo said in a press release. “As a pharmaceutical company with a demonstrated commitment to the improvement of pain management, Endo feels a strong sense of responsibility to improve the care of pain for patients while at the same time taking comprehensive steps to minimize the potential misuse of its products.
“Despite the FDA’s request to withdraw OPANA® ER from the market, this request does not indicate uncertainty with the product’s safety or efficacy when taken as prescribed. Endo remains confident in the body of evidence established through clinical research demonstrating that OPANA® ER has a favorable risk-benefit profile when used as intended in appropriate patients.”
Read Endo’s entire response to the FDA’s decision here.
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That’s not the problem. People who abuse stuff that’s there for people in severe pain are obviously fucked up. They’ll just find something else if you get rid of all of the opiates and every drug. People that want to get high because they have underlying mental problems will just find another thing to do it with whether that be alcohol, synthetic weed, etc. People are fucked up.
Get high every day!!
the government is the problem. anything that alters ones mood has and always will be abused by some. take away the ‘legal’ shit, thats made cleaner, and people resort to things like heroin, cause its easy to obtain and most times, stronger. enter string overdose land and dumbasses standin around, scratchin heads, wondering why.
but we can leave out the abuse of alc and tobacco, which each on its own, far outweigh death tally of all other drugs alone. legal and otherwise.
Pills the new crack, it’s only legal because the medical industry makes so much money from them. But make no mistake pills worst than you think.
Yeah let’s turn to the nanny state tactics again and take away anything that may be dangerous for anyone….including sharp edges. Because we all know how well prohibition and the war on drugs works right? I suppose it would be completely ludicrous to let people make their own minds and use their own brains and judgement? Foh with this bullshit. If people want are dumb enough to want to abuse this shit, there’s nothing than can be done to combat that besides EDUCATION on this shit. These pills and xannies and all the other pain pills and benzos can be got legally or ILLEGALLY, something y’all can never stop. Wake up America, start putting the money on the failed war on drugs into educating people early on about the risks and dangers of this shit.
Preach!!! There are countries that sell over the counter antibiotics and strong pain meds, but yet you don’t see the people going crazy with it. Population control. Making it harder for those that need the meds. It’s just a marketing ploy. The whole healthcare system isn’t built to help people. It’s now a money making machine. Ok, let me stop before I get carried away lol
This move mostly benifits big pharmaceutical corporations. One big drug mafia. There are remedys out there like Colloidal silver that EFFECTIVELY kills bacteria to keep u from getting sick. Most people dont know about alternatives to pricey prescription drugs. The FDA are a bunch of corrupted crooks.
And this relates to hip-hop how?
u take a piece of a 10mg and youll be jammed all day. opana no joke, better than oc every was
Is this MSNBC or Hiphopdx? This isn’t the kinda shit that I expect to read when I come to this site