The Food and Drug Administration is issuing strong new warnings that the combined use of opioid medications and benzodiazepines, a class of anti-anxiety medications better known by such commercial ...

Whether new black box warnings on opioid pain medication labels will reduce inappropriate prescribing isn't clear. Research suggests such warnings, the strongest type there is on drug labels, have ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the addition of Boxed Warnings to the drug labeling of prescription opioid pain and prescription opioid cough medicines, and benzodiazepines.

Cough and cold medicines containing opioid ingredients, such as codeine or hydrocodone, should no longer be given to children of any age, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA ...

The FDA will require much stronger warnings on opioid painkillers, making clear they need to be a last-ditch option even for serious pain. Prescription pills containing oxycodone and acetaminophen ...

In an effort to stem the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, the Food and Drug Administration will require its strongest warning on immediate-release opioid painkillers.. The "black box" warning ...

FDA announces bold warning requirement for opioid medication labels On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug administration announced safety label changes for widely prescribed opioid pain medications.

Califf said the boxed warnings are part of the agency’s Opioids Action Plan, which is designed to try to reverse the prescription opioid epidemic. Earlier this year, the FDA required new ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new form of an extremely potent opioid to manage acute pain in adults, weeks after the chairman of the advisory committee that ...

While the FDA says that kratom, like opioids, carries risks of abuse and addiction and has been linked to overdose deaths, its advocates say the risks have been blown out of proportion by health ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing strong new warnings that the combined use of opioid medications and benzodiazepines, a class of anti-anxiety medications better known by such ...

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