US FDA Likely Cannot Force Sponsors To Fund Opioid Prescribing Guideline Trials
Executive Summary
Once the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine find conditions needing more evidence to support prescribing guidelines, the agency may have find a way to gather the data.
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