The head of the Food and Drug Administration says more needs to be done in the area of treatment for pain. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf came to Lexington to participate in University of Kentucky Healthcare’s 60 Anniversary Symposium. Califf said a focus should be placed on non-addictive treatments for pain.
“We need something besides opioids that would be highly effective. We don’t have it now. I don’t think the industry has come up…the pipeline doesn’t look as good as I would hope it would. We’re going to be thinking a lot about how to stimulate that,” said Califf.
