Category: CDC Guidelines
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines and Regulations. Posts in this category review data collection techniques, interpretation of data, reporting and compliance with Federal guidelines for research and reporting. Reviews will focus on CDC reports on acute and chronic pain management, guidelines for prescribers, use of CDC guidelines by other government agencies as well as reviews from other private agencies in healthcare and law.
Franklin County Ohio Coroner, drug overdose deaths up 15% in 2019
Pre-release data reported by the Associated Press on 2019 opioid overdose deaths indicates that for the first nine months of 2019, opioid overdose deaths rose grew at a faster rate when compared to the same time period in 2018.
HHS opioid prescribing guidelines reverse course on strict restrictions
ABC has run an article sighting DHHS has reversed course on its opioid guidelines. They now advised doctors that cutting off pain patients’ prescriptions suddenly could do more harm than good.
Average State Population per Opioid Script Written 2012
Aggregated DEA pill data is reported as a ratio of state population to average monthly scripts at selected dosage amounts.
CDC Publishes New Statistics on Drug Overdoses
On September 6, 2019 the CDC published updated data on it’s Injury Prevention and Control website and the major takeaway is that drug overdose deaths are continuing to rise.
CDC Guidelines for Opioid Tapering in Chronic Pain, what’s missing?
So what are our healthcare professional and law enforcement agencies failing to recognize in their efforts to balance combating opioid abuse while humanely and responsibly managing chronic pain conditions for the public?
Suicides rising across the US
While the CDC breaks out data points for causes unrelated to mental health issues, the one category missing in its data collection efforts, and one for which they have abundant data, are the suicides related to forced tapering or termination of opioids in patients with legitimate medical needs.
CDC Advises Against Misapplication of the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
In a new commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), authors of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (Guideline) advise against misapplication of the Guideline that can risk patient health and safety.
America’s Prefered Drug of Choice Linked to Opioid Overdose Deaths
More than half of the 4.2 million Americans who misused prescription opioids between 2012 and 2014 also engaged in binge drinking, according to a new study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
USA Today says we’re fighting the wrong war
CDC should simply retract their guidelines and defer to Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Forces recommendations on treating chronic pain.
The Necessity of Ethical Guidelines in Opioid Prescribing
Ethical guidelines protecting people from a healthcare system too quick to profile them as opioid abusers, written into the standards of care, becomes an essential element of protecting the health and wellbeing of a public. Our tunnel vision on stopping opioid abuse can no longer afford the continued collateral damage it is causing. It is after all, the primary mandate of every state medical board to protect the public from healthcare gone awry, including those with chronic non-cancer pain.