Overzealous use of the CDC’s opioid prescribing guideline is harming pain patients

www.statnews.com/2018/12/06/overzealous-use-cdc-opioid-prescribing-guideline/#comments During the recent Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association, the organization’s president, Dr. Barbara McAneny, told the story of a patient of hers whose pharmacist refused to fill his prescription for an opioid medication. She had prescribed the medication to ease her patient’s severe pain from prostate cancer, which had spread to his […]