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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

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We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). According to the CDC, the proposed guideline is a clinical tool meant “to improve communication between clinicians and patients, empowering them to make more informed, person-centered decisions related to pain care together.”

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

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We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). CDC received some 5,500 comments from patients, caregivers, clinicians and interested organizations to the proposed guideline update it issued in February. 2022 Guideline at 15. (We 2022 Guideline at 3.