|Videos|August 12, 2011

Prescription Acetaminophen-Opioid Combinations: Making Pain Medicines Safer

Sandy Kweder, deputy director of the FDA's Office of New Drugs, talks about the implications of the FDA's announcement earlier this year that all prescription combinations of opioids and acetaminophen are required to contain no more than 325 mg of acetaminophen per tablet.

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