Access to Drugs Before FDA Approval: Video Explainer with Christopher Robertson
In this video explainer, Christopher Robertson discusses the Right to Try Act and off-label use of pharmaceuticals with Alison Bateman-House.

In this video explainer, Christopher Robertson discusses the Right to Try Act and off-label use of pharmaceuticals with Alison Bateman-House.

Topics include off-label and compassionate drug use for COVID-19 and utilization and cost of naloxone for patients at high risk of opioid overdose.

Almost immediately, there was a public outcry about the possibility that this was an illegal or unethical “research experiment.”

With the sudden spike in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 symptoms, physicians are using these drugs faster than manufacturers are making them.

In January 2020, two FDA committees met to consider approval of three opioid-related new drug applications.

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