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FDA Issues New Warning Involving Opioid-Based Prescriptions, Antidepressants
FDA Issues New Warning Involving Opioid-Based Prescriptions, AntidepressantsFederal regulators issued a new "boxed" warning today on the practice of taking certain opioid and antidepressant medications together.The high level warning includes the drugs oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and antidepressant drugs known as benzodiazepines.Officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said they have become increasingly concerned about the increase in people who take the two types of medications together.
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FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Two Drug Classes
FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Two Drug ClassesBy Michael MezherThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it is requiring two classes of drugs, opioids and benzodiazepines, to bear a boxed warning over serious and sometimes fatal risks when the two drugs are used in combination."It is nothing short of a public health crisis when you see a substantial increase of avoidable overdose and death related to two widely used drug classes being taken together," said FDA Commissioner Robert Califf."We implore health care professionals to heed these new warnings more carefully and thoroughly evaluate, on a patient-by-patient basis, whether the benefits of using opioids and benzodiazepines – or CNS depressants more generally – together outweigh these serious risks."
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FDA Heightens Warning About Drug Combinations
FDA Heightens Warning About Drug CombinationsWASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration, concerned about death and overdose risks from narcotic painkillers taken with certain antianxiety or sedative drugs, on Wednesday issued its most serious safety warning about the drug combinations.The so-called boxed warning about combined use will be required on labels for opioid painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine, and for benzodiazepine drugs.These are widely sold as...
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