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Opioids Tough To Prescribe For Legitimate Patients, Doctors Say
THURSDAY, April 24, 2025 — Patients who legitimately need opioid painkillers are finding it more difficult to get the meds they need, due to guardrails established in response to the U.S. opioid c...
CDC Warns of Fake Drug Dangers From Online Pharmacies
THURSDAY, Oct. 3, 2024 – Americans who turn to online pharmacies to find cheaper versions of expensive prescription medications, especially opioids, may instead be buying themselves dangerous drugs...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Drug Safety Communication: All Opioid Pain Medicines - FDA Updates Prescribing Information to Provide Additional Guidance for Safe Use
ISSUE: The FDA is requiring several updates to the prescribing information for both immediate-release (IR) and extended release/long acting (ER/LA) opioid pain medicines. This includes stating for a...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Bryant Ranch Prepack Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Morphine Sulfate 30 mg Extended Release and Morphine Sulfate 60 mg Extended-Release Due to Label-Mix Up
June 28, 2022 – Burbank, California, Bryant Ranch Prepack Inc. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Morphine Sulfate 30 mg Extended-Release tablets (Comprised of 10 bottles), and one lot of Morphine S...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Injectable Products by SCA Pharmaceuticals: Recall - Potential Contamination
ISSUE: SCA Pharmaceuticals LLC (“SCA Pharmaceuticals”) is voluntarily recalling various lots of injectable products to the hospital level. There is a potential for the products to contain microbial co...
FDA Approves Symproic (naldemedine) for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation
OSAKA, Japan and FLORHAM PARK, N.J. and STAMFORD, Conn., March 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Shionogi Inc. and Purdue Pharma L.P. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved...
FDA Approves Arymo ER (morphine sulfate) Abuse-Deterrent Formulation for the Treatment of Chronic Pain
WAYNE, Penn., Jan. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Egalet Corporation (Nasdaq: EGLT) ("Egalet"), a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Opioid Pain or Cough Medicines Combined With Benzodiazepines: Drug Safety Communication - FDA Requiring New Boxed Warnings About Serious Risks and Death
ISSUE: FDA review has found that the growing combined use of opioid medicines with benzodiazepines or other drugs that depress the central nervous system (CNS) has resulted in serious side effects,...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Opioid Pain Medicines: Drug Safety Communication - New Safety Warnings Added to Prescription Opioid Medications
ISSUE: FDA is warning about several safety issues with the entire class of opioid pain medicines. See the FDA Drug Safety Communication for a complete listing. These safety risks are potentially h...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Morphine Sulfate 0.5 mg/mL Preservative Free in 0.9 percent Sodium Chloride by by Pharmakon Pharmaceuticals: Recall - Super-potent Product
ISSUE: FDA is alerting health care professionals of a voluntary recall of morphine sulfate 0.5 mg/mL preservative free in 0.9% sodium chloride, 1 mL syringe, CII, for intravenous use made and...
FDA Approves Narcan (naloxone) Nasal Spray to Treat Opioid Overdose
November 18, 2015 – Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan nasal spray, the first FDA-approved nasal spray version of naloxone hydrochloride, a life-saving medication that can...
FDA Approves MorphaBond (morphine sulfate) Extended-Release Tablets with Abuse-Deterrent Properties
VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y., Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Inspirion Delivery Technologies LLC (“Inspirion”) announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved MorphaBond™ (morphi...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Compounded Drugs Stored in Becton-Dickinson (BD) 3 ml and 5 ml Syringes: FDA Warning - Do Not Use
ISSUE: FDA is alerting health care professionals not to administer to patients compounded or repackaged drugs that have been stored in 3 milliliter (ml) and 5ml syringes manufactured by...
FDA Approves Evzio (naloxone) Hand-Held Auto-Injector to Reverse Opioid Overdose
April 3, 2014 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a prescription treatment that can be used by family members or caregivers to treat a person known or suspected to have had an...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Meridian Medical Technologies Auto-Injectors: Extension of Expiration Dates
including Auto-Injectors for Atropen (atropine) DuoDote (atropine/pralidoxime chloride) morphine sulfate pralidoxime chloride diazepam [Posted 11/22/2013] ISSUE: FDA is aware of a disruption in ...