Whether new black box warnings on opioid pain medication labels will reduce inappropriate prescribing isn't clear. Research suggests such warnings, the strongest type there is on drug labels, have ...

The Food and Drug Administration is issuing strong new warnings that the combined use of opioid medications and benzodiazepines, a class of anti-anxiety medications better known by such commercial ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the addition of Boxed Warnings to the drug labeling of prescription opioid pain and prescription opioid cough medicines, and benzodiazepines.

The FDA will require much stronger warnings on opioid painkillers, making clear they need to be a last-ditch option even for serious pain. Prescription pills containing oxycodone and acetaminophen ...

The Food and Drug Administration is demanding that the instructions for the most commonly prescribed opioids include so-called black box warnings about dangers of abuse, misuse, overdose and death.

While the FDA says that kratom, like opioids, carries risks of abuse and addiction and has been linked to overdose deaths, its advocates say the risks have been blown out of proportion by health ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it will require new safety warnings to be added in the prescribing information on labels for opioid pain relievers, including a warning about ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is requiring stronger warning labels on prescription painkillers like OxyContin, in the government’s latest attempt to reduce overdose deaths ...

Cough and cold medicines containing opioid ingredients, such as codeine or hydrocodone, should no longer be given to children of any age, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new form of an extremely potent opioid to manage acute pain in adults, weeks after the chairman of the advisory committee that ...

Government aims to reduce overdose deaths New label provides greater clarity about long-acting opioids FDA has issued other warnings about prescription pain relievers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing strong new warnings that the combined use of opioid medications and benzodiazepines, a class of anti-anxiety medications better known by such ...