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

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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.” The guideline impacted the continuing decline of total numbers of opioid prescriptions issued in the U.S.,