Regulations on narcotics for medical use, such as narcotic appetite suppressants and propofol, which is used for general anesthesia, that the government is restricting new approvals for, are expected to become stricter than before.

Until now, even narcotic medications for which new approvals are restricted by the government were allowed to receive new approvals when developed into new formulations, but these new formulations will not be approved in the future if they have a high risk of misuse or abuse or is rejected by the deliberation committee.

On the 19th, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that it had publicized the narcotic medications subject to restrictions that con