Anonymous ID: 520fc2 July 20, 2021, 8:53 a.m. No.14161093   🗄️.is đź”—kun

January, 2021: "In a letter to the administration, 28 groups accused Dr Janet Woodcock of presiding over “one of the worst regulatory agency failures in US history” as head of the FDA department responsible for approving new prescription opioids, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Drug makers conspired to worsen the opioid crisis. They have blood on their hands. Woodcock was named acting FDA commissioner by the new administration on the day Biden took office. The letter urged the president not to nominate her to permanently head the agency.

 

“In its opioid decision-making, Dr Woodcock, and the division she supervised, consistently put the interests of opioid manufacturers ahead of public health, often overruling its own scientific advisors and ignoring the pleas of public health groups, state Attorneys General, and outraged victims of the opioid crisis,” the letter said.

The letter accused Woodcock of “dereliction of duty” for allowing opioid manufacturers to spend years disseminating false claims that narcotic painkillers were less addictive and more effective than they really were, contributing to the rise of mass opioid prescribing and spread of an epidemic that has claimed more than 500,000 lives."

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/28/fda-janet-woodcock-opioids-biden