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CDC Comes Down Hard on Opioids for Chronic Pain

March 16, 2016

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The CDC has released its final guidance on opioid prescribing, urging clinicians not to use the painkillers as first-line therapy for chronic pain and suggesting limits on dose and duration when they do have to be prescribed.

The guidance, although voluntary, is perhaps the strongest federal statement on opioids to date, a step taken to help stop the bleeding from the nation’s opioid crisis. There were nearly 19,000 overdose deaths in 2014.

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