Opioids: US Senate Committee Chairman's Discussion Drafts Broadly Reflect FDA Priorities

Agency would be allowed to require blister packaging for approved opioids, and would have to do more to coordinate with US Customs and Border Protection to detect illicit drugs at the border, under legislative proposals unveiled by Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander.

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Two discussion drafts of legislation from Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., appear to broadly reflect the US FDA's priorities for addressing the opioid epidemic in the realms of packaging and border security.

Draft legislation aimed at improving FDA's statutory authorities for opioids would allow the agency to require opioid manufacturers to...

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