P.A.A.R.I. Calls on FDA to Issue Stricter Guidelines

GLOUCESTER — Recognizing that there are terrible, life-threatening diseases that require advanced pain medicine and management, and the proven and devastating addictive effects of Oxycontin, the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (P.A.A.R.I.) today called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to offer lengthy and specific guidelines in the wake of its ruling allowing prescriptions of Oxycontin for children ages 11-16.  For complete press release, click HERE