FDA Urged To Put Warning On Dangerous Medications Combination

Thursday Feb 25th, 2016

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was recently urged by medical specialists to properly label combination of medications to warn the public of their effects to a person's health. A petition online is now being pushed by practitioners, researchers and even academics to put black box warnings for opioid analgesic and benzodiazepine medicines.

The petitioners specifically asked the FDA to warn the public about taking both drugs, according to Forbes.. "We believe that this black box warning is a critical first step in raising awareness around the danger of co-prescribing these medications," Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen said.

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