CDC issues new opioid prescribing guidance to replace 2016 version that doctors and patients say led to a crisis of untreated pain. NarouzeMD says it now emphasizes individualized patient care.
The federal government's new opioid prescribing guidelines may help doctors better manage patients with chronic pain who need consistent doses of pain medicines. For example, one patient takes tramadol regularly for serious pain caused by osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease.Jose M. Osorio/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
The 100-page document and its topline recommendation serve as a roadmap for prescribers who are navigating the thorny issue of treating pain, including advice on handling pain relief after surgery and managing chronic pain conditions, which are estimated to affect as many as one in every five people in the U.S.
Federal agencies had tried to course correct, making it clear that the older voluntary guidelines were not intended to become strict policies or laws. But doctors and patient advocates also held out hope that the CDC's updated guidelines would undo some of the unintended consequences of the earlier guidance.
"You can tell the culture around the 2016 guidelines was just to cut down opioids, that opioids are bad," he says."It's the opposite here, you can sense they are more caring more about patients living in pain. It's directed more towards relieving the pressure, their pain, their suffering."Opioid prescribing started to decline in 2012 and that trend continued after the 2016 guidelines were released.
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