To Predict ‘Next Wave Of Drug Abuse,’ FDA Listens To The Internet And Follows The Pills [ACSH.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/1/184:00 AM

In a just published perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. outlines with colleagues the multi-prong approach the agency is using to combat the complex issue that is misuse and abuse of opioids while detailing surveillance measures already underway to detect rapidly the next wave of drug abuse. Among this so-called proactive pharmacovigilance plan is employing a social media “listening platform” that monitors opioid conversation traffic in traditional and other sites or forums that are publicly available. When alternative substances are mentioned, the data mining deepens.

[For more of this story, written by Jamie Wells, go to https://www.acsh.org/news/2018...-follows-pills-13035]

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Karen ClemmerMember

This article asks important questions:

“The conversation needs to involve active efforts to decipher why our culture of multi-drug abuse is so prevalent, how to impact attitudes on the hazards of prescription sharing and our propensity for self-medicating, make rehabilitation and re-entry programs more family-centric since we know adverse childhood experiences like chronic, extreme toxic stress when untreated can lead to adult dysfunction. With escalating rates of untoward effects on children (and adults) with this current opioid wave, we need to emphasize helping those addicted get rehab and other services that secure and stabilize their futures while also helping others never get addicted ... “

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