The guidance now covers almost all outpatient pain instead of just focusing on chronic pain, according to an expert.
Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines on how opioids are prescribed for pain.
The guidance now covers almost all outpatient pain instead of just focusing on chronic pain. There's less emphasis on how high a dosage can be, allowing for more individualized care. “They also include the idea that if they do poorly, then you reduce the dose, you could reverse that taper, and that's a big deal because many doctors were previously taught to never reverse a taper,” Kertesz said. “Even if what they were doing was causing the patient to die, which is a crazy, ethical situation, but one that we continue to see to this very day.
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