Groups Urge Senate Finance Committee To Release Findings From Painkiller Investigation
A coalition of groups in a letter sent Wednesday called on the Senate Finance Committee to release the findings from its three-year-old probe into ties between several opioid painkiller manufacturers and not-for-profit medical organizations. The letter, which was signed by the National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse and 35 other groups, stated, "To bring our nation's epidemic of opioid addiction to an end, we must reduce overprescribing of opioids," adding, "This goal will be difficult to achieve if opioid makers, and the groups they fund, continue to promote aggressive and inappropriate prescribing."
- "Groups Seek Details on Senate Probe Into Painkiller Ties" (Perrone, AP/Sacramento Bee, 9/16).