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Painkiillers

03/24/2016 / By newstarget

FDA now wants their own FDA-approved gateway drugs to require warning labels stating the obvious: opiod painkillers ‘may’ cause addiction, death

Federal health officials strengthened drug label warnings for addictive painkillers on Tuesday and called for more addiction treatment, citing continuing overdoses and a drug abuse epidemic that is “blurring” into a heroin epidemic. (Article by Dan Vergano, republished from http://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/fda-strengthens-warnings-about-addictive-painkillersI) “It is just staggering and heartbreaking to see the toll that abuse is taking,” said Dr. […]

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