The global health crisis has presented a chance for the industry to improve its reputation by highlighting the value of its R&D engines. Pharma execs and observers talk to Scrip about why they are optimistic about industry’s chance to regain public trust.

US FDA’s workshop to discuss new ideas to assess the impact of the opioid REMS comes after the industry collaboration behind the REMS has deemed the task essentially impossible.

Whether CME for pain management has the intended impact on prescribing is likely focus of new ‘suite of studies’ intended to assess the opioid REMS program. The challenges for FDA include teasing out the impact of the risk management program amid all the other public health efforts on opioids.