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National Institute on Drug Abuse: NIDAMED: Clinical Resources: Opioid Crisis and Pain Management
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Opioids
Safer Prescribing Saves Lives: Opioid Prescribing Guideline Chronic pain is common, multidimensional, and individualized. Treatment can be challenging for healthcare providers as well as patients. Since 1999, deaths involving prescription opioids have increased by more than five times, and over 200,000 people have died from prescription opioids.1 The recommendations in the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for …
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