The World Health Organization notified U.S. lawmakers Wednesday that it will discontinue two publications on prescribing opioid painkillers in response to allegations that the pharmaceutical industry influenced the reports.
Family and friends who lost loved ones to opioid overdoses protest outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn., in August.
"That is a very dangerous situation," Clark said."We do not want to see the opioid crisis in this country exported around the globe." The lawmakers initially contacted the WHO in 2017 after reports that Purdue's international arm, Mundipharma, was expanding overseas using some of the same controversial tactics. Mundipharma was eventually caught up in a, where police allege company executives paid a prominent pain doctor to help push more opioids.
The 2011 guidance called"Ensuring balance in national policies on controlled substances" includes a claim that Clark says is reminiscent of Purdue's marketing of OxyContin in the 1990s, in defiance of known science about the addictiveness of opioids. It states:"Opioid analgesics, if prescribed in accordance with established dosage regimens, are known to be safe and there is no need to fear accidental death or dependence.
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