Without Opioids For Back Pain, Patients Explore Dangerous Treatment Banned In Other Countries

Pfizer, faced with hundreds of complaints related to the injections of Depo-Medrol, asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban that treatment five years ago, citing risk of blindness, stroke, paralysis and death. The FDA declined to issue a ban. Also on the opioid epidemic, there's news on prescription drug monitoring and lawmakers' objections to the federal government's decision to withhold millions to fight the public health crisis.

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