AG’s Want FDA To Make It Harder To Abuse Generic Pain Pills

March 12, 2013

The attorneys general from Florida and Alabama are behind an effort to make generic pain pills tougher to get a hold of and abuse.

The four attorneys general – Florida’s Pam Bondi , Alabama’s Luther Strange, Kentucky’s Jack Conway and North Carolina’s Roy Cooper – spearheaded a letter that asks the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to adopt standards requiring manufacturers and marketers of generic prescription painkillers to develop tamper- and abuse-resistant versions of their products.

The letter, signed by 44 other state and territorial attorneys general, is a follow up to a letter Bondi sent to the FDA in October calling for tamper-resistant formulations of prescription opioids.

A release from Bondi’s office noted that makers of name-brand versions of painkillers such as OxyContin have taken steps to make it harder to crush to inject or snort.

By The News Service of Florida

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