The Health 202: Drug maker accuses FDA of hampering its medication for opioid treatment
Let’s zoom out for a moment. There’s broad consensus that combining counseling services with medication-assisted treatment is the best way to help people who are addicted to prescription painkillers, heroin or the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
When I asked Indivior for comment, the company sent a statement praising the medication and linking to studies showing its effectiveness, without addressing the orphan drug designation. “It’s very unusual or precedented – in my recollection – that a population for what is perceived to be a rare disease would grow to a point where it ends up being 10 times the cap for orphan drug designation,” said Bernard Munos, a former corporate strategy advisor at Eli Lilly.Derkacz contends it would result in fewer anti-opioid medications being available even as the public health agencies try to combat the epidemic.
Part of what led to the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was reportedly tension between her and the president over Trump’s support for reinstating the administration’s family separation policy.Trump for months has been pushing his administration to revive the separation of families at the U.S. border with Mexico. They add an administration official said Trump believes the policy was effective in curbing asylum-seekers.
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