FDA issues new opioid prescribing guidelines

(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review)

The FDA has issued new rules related to the prescribing of opioid painkillers.

The rules apply to transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl, or TIRF, drugs. The drugs contain fentanyl, a powerful opioid, and are used to manage breakthrough pain in adults with cancer. To be prescribed a TIRF drug, patients have to be opioid tolerant.  Continue reading article here…

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