– Certain practices harm chronic pain patients by Judy George, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today  Authors of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain sought to clarify the guidance on Wednesday, urging clinicians against misapplying its recommendations. Certain policies and practices about opioids and chronic pain patients have been misapplied and do not reflect the 2016…
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Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts
CDC – Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Recent improvements in timeliness and data quality over the last year have prompted a re-evaluation of the length of time that data quality requirements have had to be met for states to be included in “Figure 2. 12 Month-ending Provisional Number of Drug…
The CDC did what?
The lies keep showing up. The reality now is that the CDC guessed at the total number of death caused by opioids in their 2016 report. If the CDC Guidelines are affecting you, this is an article you need to read. http://www.facebook.com/groups/CPPNewsSource/permalink/495193107897213
FORBES, CDC BOWS TO DEMANDS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC INPUT ON DRAFT OPIOID-GUIDELINES
Dec 15, 2015,4:01 pm Rich Samp, Contributor Washington Legal Foundation, Contributor Group Over the past year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been drafting a Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in relative secrecy, relying upon the input of a hand-picked group of advisers and a limited number of stakeholders. Such…
MOST RECENT CDC RELEASE PERTAINING TO OPIOIDS.
CDC – OPIOID GUIDELINES SHOULD NOT BE USED TO TAPER PATIENTS April 24, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken its first concrete step to address the widespread misuse and misapplication of its opioid prescribing guideline. In a commentary published in The New England Journal of Medicine,…
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