CDC gives doctors more leeway in prescribing opioid painkillers

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has softened its recommendations for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers, giving providers more flexibility in the way they prescribe the drugs to treat short- and long-term pain.

The new guidance backs off from the agency's 2016 recommendations that encouraged doctors to avoid prescribing opioids to treat patients' pain and put more barriers in place. It eliminates caps on numerical dose thresholds and time limitations on opioid treatment for acute pain."The science on pain care has advanced over the past six years,” said Dr. Debbie Dowell, chief clinical research officer for the CDC’s Division of Overdose Prevention.

In more recent years, illicit fentanyl and other drugs have overtaken prescription opioids, accounting for more deaths.

 

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