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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued new guidance for providers on prescribing opioids for chronic pain, updating previous recommendations that had been in place ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is finalizing new federal clinical practice guidelines on opioid prescribing that will remove recommended ceiling on opioid doses ...
The 2016 guidelines for prescribing opioids to people with chronic pain filled a vacuum for state officials searching for solutions to the overdose crisis, said Dr. Pooja Lagisetty, an assistant ...
Community-based opioid tapering increased after the 2016 "Center for Disease Control Guideline for Prescribing Opioids in Chronic Pain" was published, and many prescribers and organizations instigated opioid tapering practices in order to reduce opioid prescribing. [1] While the CDC guideline was intended to inform primary care physicians on ...
In response to the surging opioid prescription rates by health care providers that contributed to the opioid epidemic in the United States, US states began passing legislation to stifle high-risk prescribing practices (such as prescribing high doses of opioids or prescribing opioids long-term). These new laws fell primarily into one of the ...
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a new set of guidelines for the prescription of opioids "for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care" and the increase of opioid tapering. [246]
The CDC’s numbers show that pain treatment is not responsible for escalating drug-related deaths.
The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act is a proposed United States congressional bill introduced in the 118th United States Congress. Introduced in response to the national opioid epidemic , the legislation would expand access to methadone , an approved medication for treating opioid use disorder (OUD).