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Don't take opioids off the market - make it harder to abuse them

  • Written by Zaina Qureshi, Assistant Professor Department of Health Services Policy and Management; Adjunct Professor Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences; Principal Investigator William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University
imageSchedule 2 narcotics: Morphine Sulfate, OxyContin and Opana.Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo

How can we combat the opioid epidemic?

One of the government’s most recent suggestions is to take Opana ER, an opioid indicated for very severe pain, off the market. The request, filed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June, was linked to concerns...

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