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FDA Requests Drug That Helped Spark HIV Outbreak Be Pulled

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FDA Requests Drug That Helped Spark HIV Outbreak Be Pulled

Barbara Brosher | 7/9/17 said:
For the first time ever, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking a pharmaceutical company to remove an opioid from the market due to the dangers of abuse. The drug is linked to Indiana’s HIV outbreak.

The FDA wants Endo Pharmaceuticals to voluntarily remove the reformulated Opana ER from the market. The company reformulated the opioid in 2012 to make it harder for people to crush and snort or inject, but people found another way to abuse Opana. Heating the pills melts the coating, allowing people to inject the drug. It was popular in Scott County, where the sharing of dirty needles sparked an HIV outbreak.

The FDA says the potential risks of abuse associated with Opana now outweigh the benefits.

“We are facing an opioid epidemic — a public health crisis, and we must take all necessary steps to reduce the scope of opioid misuse and abuse,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement. “We will continue to take regulatory steps when we see situations where an opioid product’s risks outweigh its benefits, not only for its intended patient population but also in regard to its potential for misuse and abuse.”

The FDA’s request comes after the agency reviewed all data available about the use of Opana ER, which revealed significant abuse after the drug’s reformulation. In addition to the HIV outbreak, the FDA says abuse of the drug has been linked to cases of a serious blood disorder called thrombotic microangiopathy.

If the company doesn’t voluntarily remove Opana ER from the market, the FDA will begin the process to formally require its removal.
http://sideeffectspublicmedia.org/post/fda-requests-drug-helped-spark-hiv-outbreak-be-pulled

No, it wasn't Opana that caused an HIV outbreak, it was the way Mr. Pence explicitly dealt with the issue that did.
 
Yeah its the pills.. or the fact it's harder then it needs to be to get clean syringes. "Big ol circle jerk here"
 
Yeah Mike Pence shutting down clinics offering STD testing had nothing to do with it I'm sure...
 
jesus, ppl would just inject oxy or heroin then. had nothing to do with making syringes illegal.
 
Yeah Mike Pence shutting down clinics offering STD testing had nothing to do with it I'm sure...

did he shut them down bc they were also performing abortions or was all they were doing is testing for STDs?
 
republicans being against needle exchanges is nothing new.

but shutting down a clinic that purely does std testing would be a new low.
 
Well Pence didn't differentiate between clinics that perform abortions and ones that don't.
Like the majority of Planned Parenthood clinics don't perform abortions but people against abortion just want them all shut down because they have it ingrained in their mind that Planned Parenthood=abortion when most of their services are contraceptive or STD related and they also provide adoption counseling and referrals to agencies and programs for young or poverty stricken parents.
 
Also it doesn't matter if he shut down clinics that performed abortions because abortion rights are a federal law and not a state law.
 
Also it doesn't matter if he shut down clinics that performed abortions because abortion rights are a federal law and not a state law.

It doesn't matter for the people in the state who need to have an abortion? ... I'm not sure what abortion has to do with Pence's record as an absolute horror when it comes to his former's community's public health record.
 
No I'm agreeing with you, I'm saying it doesn't make the situation justified if he only shut down clinics that performed abortion services in addition to STD testing, because a governor shouldn't try to get around a federally protected right.
 
But abortion is a major reason he was such a horror to the states free healthcare.
He's so blinded by his prolife stance he was willing to take away important health services because he thought doing so would get abortion clinics shut down and that was more important to him.
 
Too late now. Everyone knows, once you start injecting, you never go back. These users will use find something else like heorin... and unfortunately, the same problems will still exist:
1. No STD/HIV clinics
2. No needle exchange program

It's really unfortunate. How long must we focus on all wrong things ?
 
It was the drugs and not clean needles?

How do these piece of shit politicians get away with this shit...well scalise didn't get away with it....more bullets for these assholes
 
The people that have abused opana will just inject heroin with dirty needles. It's absolutely ridiculous.
 
Just like they've been injecting Opana with dirty needles. Promoting the spread of HIV/HCV: a real legacy for Pence.
 
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