Thirty city and state health directors from around the nation are calling on FDA to label opioid analgesics and benzodiazepines with its strongest warning.
BALTIMORE, MD (February 22, 2016)–Today, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen issued the following statement in support of Maryland General Assembly House Bill 749 which would prohibit the sale of powdered alcohol:
(February 22, 2016)– City and state health directors from across the country today called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt labels to explicitly warn about a dangerous combination of medications that is helping drive the nation’s prescription drug overdose epidemic.
Monica Valdes Lupi from the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) has joined city and state health directors from across the country in calling on the U.S.
Public health directors from around the nation demanded the FDA label prescription painkillers and sedatives with its strongest warning in a petition delivered to the federal agency Monday.
Dozens of public health officials and academics across the country are pushing the Food and Drug Administration to warn people about the potential dangers of taking powerful prescription painkiller
City and state health directors are urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put warning labels on powerful painkillers that can be fatal when taken with other drugs.
Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen will join other health directors across the country today in asking the federal government to require a "black box warning" when prescribing opioids with a c