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SRES 97 113th Congress Senate Health Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Prescription drugs

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration should encourage the use of abuse-deterrent formulations of drugs.

Introduced: April 15, 2013 See on congress.gov
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Apr 15, 2013
Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2654)
Apr 15, 2013
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should exercise its acknowledged authority to: (1) refuse to approve generic versions of non-abuse-deterrent opioid products that have been replaced in the market with abuse-deterrent formulations recognized by FDA as effective, and (2) require generic versions of abuse-deterrent opioid products to be formulated with comparable abuse-deterrent features.

What's happening now April 15, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2654)

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