FDA calls on drugmaker to pull a powerful opioid off the market

The Food and Drug Administration requested Thursday that the drugmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals stop selling Opana ER — its extended-release version of Opana.
The FDA says the move marks the first time the agency has taken steps to remove an opioid from the market because of “public health consequences of abuse.”
An increasing number of people, the FDA says, are abusing the powerful prescription pills by crushing, dissolving and injecting them. The sharing of needles by these drug