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Overzealous Use of the CDC's Opioid Prescribing Guideline is Harming Pain Patients Article

Article: Click Here Overzealous use of the CDC’s opioid prescribing guideline is harming pain patients  Richard A Lawhern PhD DECEMBER 6, 2018 AT 8:58 AM Congratulations to Kate Nicholson, Dianne Hoffmann and Dr Chad Kollas on an excellent summary of the many horrid impacts of the 2016 CDC guidelines. As “weaponized” by State and Federal legislators in restrictive regulations and laws, these guidelines are directly responsible for hundreds of deaths due to doctor desertion, patient medical collapse and suicide.  Three key but scientifically unsupported assumptions of the Guidelines writers are now known to be wrong. And the omission of an entire field of medical literature renders moot, the CDC one-size-fits-all dose criterion for safety review. Contrary to the guidelines, we now know: (1) Managed medical exposure to opioid therapy is rarely associated with substance abuse in pain patients. Published CDC data reveal no cause-and-effect relationship between rates o