WASHINGTON ¨C The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed tightening rules governing the amount of prescription opioid painkillers that drugmakers can manufacture in a given year, in hopes of reining in the deadly opioid epidemic.
The Drug Enforcement Administration¡¯s proposed changes to its regulations over addictive drug manufacturing quotas were announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The plan could sharply reduce the annual production of painkillers.
¡°Under this proposed new rule, if DEA believes that a company¡¯s opioids are being diverted for misuse, then they will reduce the amount of opioids that company can make,¡± Sessions said in prepared remarks.
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