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Reassessing the impact of CDC's opioid guidelines on chronic pain care

Summary by KevinMD.com
Internal medicine and pediatric physician Charles LeBaron discusses his article "How the CDC's opioid rules created a crisis for chronic pain patients." Charles discusses the 2016 CDC opioid guideline, initially framed as a solution to over-prescription and overdose deaths, and critically examines its actual impact. He reveals how the guideline, despite being based on "low quality of evidence," led to widespread restrictions on opioid prescripti…
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KevinMD.com broke the news in on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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