Nationally Sindicated Fitness, Health, and Medicine Columnist
Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe, Nov. 13, 2013
Re: “Painkiller Addiction – The FDA takes action,” editorial, Nov. 9, 2013
In an editorial yesterday, the Globe applauded the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision recently to restrict access to hydrocodone-containing drugs such as Vicodin.
The US Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to restrict access to hydrocodone-containing drugs such as Vicodin may or not may not do anything to reduce the prescription drug abuse problem. But it will almost certainly hurt legitimate pain patients who need the drugs.