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Dr. Makary: “The FDA did fail” on OxyContin #shorts #oxycontin #fda #wallstreetweek
Bloomberg Television· 2025-07-11 23:18
How does your approach to science and common sense avoid the next Oxycontton. One of the first actions I took was to remove all industry members of FDA advisory committees wherever statutoily possible. And so we've got to preserve that scientific process and we've got great scientists that are doing that right now.Um the second thing is that we need to have eyes on a drug and device the second it's approved and keep eyes on those drugs. We shouldn't be learning 19 years after Oxycontton was approved that it ...
Makary Reveals What’s Broken Inside the FDA
Bloomberg Television· 2025-07-11 23:06
Talk to us about opioids that the FDA failed. The FDA did fail. There were many parts of our health care system that failed.Look, I feel terrible about the opioid epidemic. I personally prescribed opioids with misinformation. It was taught to me by my chief resident in my surgical residency, and we sort of woke up to this problem around 2014, 2015 and thought, Oh my God, what have we done.What information did we not have, I think was regulatory capture at the agency. Now we can't prove that. But when the re ...
FDA to Revisit Opioid Labeling for Chronic Pain
Bloomberg Television· 2025-07-11 16:03
Talk to us about opioids that the FDA failed. The FDA did fail. There were many parts of our health care system that failed.Look, I feel terrible about the opioid epidemic. I personally prescribed opioids with misinformation. It was taught to me by my chief resident in my surgical residency, and we sort of woke up to this problem around 2014, 2015 and thought, Oh my God, what have we done.What information did we not have. I think was regulatory capture at the agency. Now we can't prove that.But when the rev ...