AP Photo/Toby Talbot, FileWASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering whether doctors who prescribe painkillers like OxyContin should be required to take safety training courses, according to federal documents. The review comes as regulators disclosed that the number of doctors who completed voluntary training programs is less than half that targeted by the agency. A panel of FDA advisers meets next week to review risk-management plans put in place nearly four years ago to reduce misuse and abuse of long-acting painkillers, powerful opioid drugs at the center of a national wave of abuse and death. Under the current risk-management programs, drugmakers fund voluntary training for physicians on how to safely prescribe their medications.
Doctors May Soon Have To Take Training Courses Before Prescribing Painkillers
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