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<title>A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration should encourage the use of abuse-deterrent formulations of drugs.</title>
<summary summary-id="id113sres97v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2013-05-16">
<action-date>2013-04-15</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should exercise its acknowledged authority to: (1) refuse to approve generic versions of non-abuse-deterrent opioid products that have been replaced in the market with abuse-deterrent formulations recognized by FDA as effective, and (2) require generic versions of abuse-deterrent opioid products to be formulated with comparable abuse-deterrent features.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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