CDC Publishes Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday published its long-awaited guidelines for opioid prescribing, a move that some say is a pivotal moment in the war on opioid abuse. The final document, “CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain,” was published in the online edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The guidelines’ release was accompanied by the online publication of a “perspective” column in the New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday by CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden and Dr. Debra Houry, director of the National Center for...