At the hearing, the Subcommittee will hear testimony from representatives of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Massachusetts House and Senate, a substance abuse treatment facility and the American Cancer Society.
As a result of the extensive abuse of OxyContin and the federal government’s lack of cohesive oversight policy for this Class II Controlled Substance, Congressman Lynch has introduced legislation that would ban the drug from the market.
WHO: Chairman Candice Miller (R-MI)
Ranking Member Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA)
Dr. Robert Meyer, Food and Drug Administration
Joseph Rannazzisi, Drug Enforcement Admin.
MA State Senator Steven Tolman
MA State Representative Brian Wallace
John McGahan, Cushing House Executive Director
Dr. Janet L. Abrahm, American Cancer Society
WHAT: "OxyContin and Beyond:
Examining the Role of FDA and DEA in
Regulating Prescription Painkillers”
WHEN: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
TIME: 11:00 AM
WHERE: Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County
John Adams Courthouse
Oliver Wendell Holmes Courtroom #2
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