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Identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety & effectiveness by the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act. Composed of 4 parts: approved prescription drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations; over-the-counter (OTC) drug products that require approved applications as a condition of marketing; drug products with approval under Sect. 505 of the Act; & products that have never been marketed, have been discontinued from marketing, or that have had their approvals withdrawn for other than safety or efficacy reasons.

Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

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