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  2. CDC weighs removing dosing limits for opioids - AOL

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    Mar. 31—BOSTON — Federal health officials are considering a plan to update restrictions on opioid prescribing as pain management groups push for changes to help people with chronic illnesses ...

  3. Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act - Wikipedia

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    The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act is a proposed United States congressional bill introduced in the 118th United States Congress. Introduced in response to the national opioid epidemic , the legislation would expand access to methadone , an approved medication for treating opioid use disorder (OUD).

  4. CDC's new opioid guidelines are too little, too late for ...

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    The 2016 guidelines for prescribing opioids to people with chronic pain filled a vacuum for state officials searching for solutions to the overdose crisis, said Dr. Pooja Lagisetty, ...

  5. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the CDC published its "Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain", recommending opioids only be used when benefits for pain and function are expected to outweigh risks, and then used at the lowest effective dosage, with avoidance of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use whenever possible. [263]

  6. Prescription drug overuse - Wikipedia

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    This is hard to avoid as weighing up the balance between benefit and harm of prescribing more medications depends on the physicians' objective opinions . [15] Although treatment guidelines are established to guide the prescription process, the guidelines are usually based on a single illness, and fail to account for the concurrent diseases and ...

  7. Government Data Refute the Notion That Overprescribing ... - AOL

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    The CDC’s numbers show that pain treatment is not responsible for escalating drug-related deaths.

  8. Opioid tapering - Wikipedia

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    Community-based opioid tapering increased after the 2016 "Center for Disease Control Guideline for Prescribing Opioids in Chronic Pain" was published, and many prescribers and organizations instigated opioid tapering practices in order to reduce opioid prescribing. [1] While the CDC guideline was intended to inform primary care physicians on ...

  9. Opioid use disorder - Wikipedia

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    The "CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain-United States, 2022" provides recommendations related to opioid misuse, OUD, and opioid overdoses. [18] It reports a lack of clinical evidence that "abuse-deterrent" opioids (e.g., OxyContin), as labeled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , are effective for OUD risk ...