This Hospital Will Do Anything to Avoid Prescribing Opioids

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By Julie Fidler

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been taking steps to cut opioid misuse and overdoses by issuing guidelines to doctors who prescribe the powerful painkillers. While the recommendations are not legally binding, the agency urges physicians in the guidelines to only prescribe opioids if there are absolutely no other options, and to only prescribe a few days’ worth of pills at a time.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also recently directed drug makers to make opioid pills more difficult to crush and dissolve, thereby making them more difficult to abuse, and will require these painkillers to carry …read more

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