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30 Days Left of Public Comment on CDC’s Draft Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids The CDC draft Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids (update to the 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain) has posted in the Federal Register and 30 days remain in the 60-day public comment period. Public comment provides valuable insight from the populations that we serve. […]

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Ron Chapman II wrote a succinct explanation of the Supreme Court hearing for the Doctors Xiulu Ruan, MD and Shakeel Kahn, MD in his blog. He has given me permission to share his blog post. But also, please go to his original blog as that will help his search engine ratings as well. Thank you, […]

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Andrew Kolodny 328 subscribers Despite low-quality evidence supporting practice change, use of opioids for chronic pain increased dramatically over the past two decades. Concurrently, there has been a sharp increase in opioid analgesic overdose deaths, addiction, misuse and diversion. Opioids may provide modest, variable short-term pain relief for some patients with chronic pain. Long-term benefits […]

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I’m training to become a pharmacist, and I want to explain through first hand experience and from what I’ve seen others suffer through. Mainly through doctors rapidly tapering them off of opioids. The gaslighting. Major surgeries being done without anaesthetic over concerns over addiction. One case was a hip replacement on a woman in her […]

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