Doctors are over-prescribing powerful fentanyl opioid painkillers – and the FDA’s program to oversee the drugs is letting too much slip through the cracks, a new study suggests.
Transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) drugs are potent drugs approved only to treat the most severe ‘break through’ pain for cancer patients.
Fentanyl is often sold or made as an illicit drug as well and, because it is up to 50 times more potent than heroin, and is now believed to be driving the overdose epidemic in the US.
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