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ELTP - Zohydro Update: Senate Bill Would Ban Powerful Opiate Painkiller (In Correlation with ELTP)

ref. http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/03/13/senator-joe-manchin-calls-for-government-ban-of-painkiller-zohydro/

Earlier today, Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) submitted a bill demanding that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rescind its approval of the painkiller Zohydro, which a growing coalition of critics believes could become the next Oxycontin in the epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction.

The “Act to Ban Zohydro,” as Manchin called his bill, offers a 13-point argument as to why the drug is simply too dangerous and the FDA’s approval should be overturned. etc.,