US FDA’s Most Unusual Advisory Committee
Executive Summary
Agency's opioid response efforts have pushed advisory committee into unusual territory in recent years. But a two-day meeting to discuss potential labeling changes to recommend co-prescribing of the overdose reversal agent naloxone moved way beyond any of the conventional boundaries of committee meetings.
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