Lori Trahan actually said...

It should not be easier for us to prescribe pain medicine than it is for us to prescribe buprenorphine to treat someone with an opiate use disorder.

Trahan emphasizes the need for equal ease in prescribing pain medicine and addiction treatment.

04/13/2021

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The agency is severely underresourced. There--we have less staff than we did back in 1980.

A more flexible and dynamic FTC actually benefits honest businesses.

It is absolutely burdensome to the Commission to do it. I think it is worth it for us to try.

I think this type of focus, and bringing this lens to our work, is going to be imperative.