FDA: new clinical guidance to expedite therapies for opioid use disorder

7 August 2018
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Following on from a series of measures aimed at challenging the ongoing opioid addiction epidemic in the USA, the US Food and Drug Administration announced new action on Monday, with a set of revised scientific recommendations.

The FDA said its draft guidance was aimed at encouraging “more widespread innovation and development of novel medication-assisted treatment (MAT) drugs” to treat opioid use disorder (OUD).

The documents detail new ways for drugmakers to evidence benefits of new or existing MAT products.

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