Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain. “A lot of them are straight-up insulting,” said ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday issued new guidance for doctors who treat pain patients that reverses a 2016 version used to sharply curtail opioid prescriptions, ultimately ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued new guidance for providers on prescribing opioids for chronic pain, updating previous recommendations that had been in place ...