Amid Backlash, CDC's New Opioid Guidance Aims to Curb Addiction and Treat Patients

Ann Tucker
Nov 11, 2022
1 min read

USA TODAY (11/3) –– The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new guidance for doctors who treat pain patients that reverses a 2016 version used to sharply curtail opioid prescriptions, ultimately leading to devastating results for some pain patients. Read more

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