Earlier this week, the Washington Post falsely claimed that the PhRMA supported the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016.
The Washington Post retracts PhRMA claim in opioid story
Earlier this week, The Washington Post falsely claimed that the PhRMA supported the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 and spent $40 million advocating for its enactment. As stated previously, these claims are unequivocally false and last night The Washington Post issued a correction clarifying that PhRMA did not take a position on the legislation.
Recently, PhRMA has taken a number of steps to address the opioid crisis, such as announcing its support for a 7-day script limit on opioids for acute pain and launching a new partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to bring new non-opioid therapies to market for patients who need them.
We will continue to work with other stakeholders to fight this terrible epidemic.
