A decade after the CDC opioid guidelines, Michael Lynch, MD, examines misapplication, fentanyl’s role, and evolving pain ...

Reductions in overall opioid prescribing and high-dose utilization followed the 2016 guidance, building on declines that ...

Marked geographic variation in opioid prescribing persisted, exemplified by Alabama’s historically high rates and subsequent ...

A survey from Pain News Network, conducted with the support of the International Pain Foundation, asked patients their thoughts on the CDC’s new opioid prescribing guidelines. The groups surveyed ...

The nation's top public health agency is proposing changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...

The CDC issued the “CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, United States, 2016” on Tuesday. Here are six things to know about the new guidance and why it was issued now. 1. The ...

Fentanyl has made headlines for driving overdose deaths, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning of the rise of an even deadlier drug. Last year, nearly 70% of all U.S.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Changes to guidelines reduced opioid dispensing rates and opioid dosages among patients with sickle cell disease ...

Although the 2022 revision of the 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Advice is an improvement over the original document, it still refers to Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) as a guide to physicians.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, for the 12 months ending in April 2021, there were over 100,000 overdose deaths, an increase of 28.5 percent over 2020 levels. Often lost in ...