Panel: Painkiller training should be required for physicians

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors who prescribe painkillers should be required to undergo training aimed at reducing misuse and abuse of the medications, federal health experts say, though they acknowledge the challenge of putting such a mandate in place.
The group of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Wednesday that the agency should change its so-called risk-management programs for opioid painkillers, highly addictive medications at the center of a national wave of ad