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Cincinnati.com: Chronic pain: Would changes in CDC opioid prescribing guidelines help those who have it?
February 21, 2022
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set opioid-prescribing guidelines for physicians. The idea was to offer doctors the best ways to protect people from an over-prescription of pain pills which had fueled the misuse of opioids and amplified cascading overdose deaths in the United States. While the goal was to protect patients, the impact was not all positive.
In an article published by Cincinnati.com, Christine Wilder, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the UC College of Medicine and the director of the UC Health Addiction Sciences, was one of the experts cited.