Naloxone Model OTC Label Expected From US FDA As Part Of Opioids Strategy
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet & The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
US FDA Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products and Drug Safety and Risk Management advisory committees meet in December to discuss proposed routes to make the opioid overdose reversal agent naloxone more available: both as an OTC product and one co-prescribed with opioids.
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