US FDA Learns 'Lessons Of History,' Takes Opioid Fight To Gabapentinoids

Agency investigating potential misuse and abuse of gabapentinoids, which CDC had recommended as alternative to opioids, in latest twist to epidemic.

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The pharmaceutical alternative to a problematic pharmaceutical has problems. What are the odds?

The US FDA is extending the fight against opioid abuse outside the opioid drug class and investigating abuse and misuse of gabapentinoids, which have been recommended as an alternative treatment for pain.

Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told attendees of a recent meeting on safe use and appropriate opioid prescribing that doctors may be...

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