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Smoke & Mirrors:CDC Prescribing Guidelines: Perspective on Genesis and Utility
Posted on February 4, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve
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I have to respectfully disagree with the late, great Dr. Fudin. I do not believe that the CDC has any business creating guidelines for opioid pain medications. It is my opinion that the CDC should stick to public health issues, especially when it’s becoming clearer that the premise under which they sought to craft guidelines in the first place, being the alleged epidemic, is fraught with integrity issues on nearly every level. I believe that we should leave the practice of medicine to those who’ve got the knowledge and training to create such a guideline if one has to exist, and that the CDC should stick to guidance on other health factors that broadly impact the public at large. Although I question their ability to do even that, in propriety. It seems that their agency can be manipulated by special interests a little too eagerly for my tastes and I sincerely believe that even with the addition of pain management experts, we shouldn’t expect that to change. It would be all together too easy for the CDC to add the aforementioned experts for superficial purposes, while still failing to seriously consider the wisdom that they would bring to the discussion. Again, no disrespect meant to Dr. Fudin. I just tend to think that both pain patients and the physicians who treat us would be much better off if the CDC were not involved in any capacity. They’ve already proven themselves to be horrendously irresponsible when it comes to the wellness, health and safety of those who are highly impacted by chronic pain. If one needs any evidence of that, look no further than the utterly reprehensible, conspicuous lack of action after it was brought to their attention that the guidelines they are so proud of were being ‘misapplied’, due in part to the (I believe) intentionally vague statements therein. When the door is left open for interpretation, it will inevitably occur. In regards to this unfathomable ethically reckless failure to act, as well as multiple other equally deeply troubling elements surrounding the opioid guidelines they’ve produced, I place my full and total support behind the elimination of any further CDC involvement in this or any pain related matter. While I am acutely aware that I am just a lowly pain patient whose opinions don’t even carry the weight of a feather when it comes to gov policy, I will continue to speak them, holding out hope that someone whose opinions mean more than mine do, will see value in them.
Amen to this response! The government has no business coming between a pain patient and their doctor!
ditto,,look at the deaths it created,,,maryw